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Field Records is to release a two-CD compilation of music from the label's artists old and new entitled simply, Collection. 

The first of three samplers features Acronym, Ben Buitendijk and Voiski. Acronym's track '16 Cygni' is a sci-fi bit of techno that is speedy, slick and intergalactic, whilst Ben Buitendijk offers up some Millsian, streamlined techno urgency with his 'Colourblind' and finally Voiski gets all elastic and industrial tinged with his whip lashing effort.

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Acronym - 16 Cygni

Maan - Jackin Pt 2 [non013]

Ken Ishii - Twitched [Different Is Different]

Includes : Submerge Remix / Owslah & Goetz Remix
Remixes Preview : https://soundcloud.com/ken-ishii-70drums/ken-ishii-twitched-submerge-remix-owslah-goetz-remix-preview-different-is-different

Catalog Number : DIDREC057
Release date : 08 September 2014


Ken Ishii - Twitched (Original Mix) (Preview) [Different Is Different]

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Berlin Rush (Original Mix)

Levon Vincent - Woman Is An Angel

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

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DJ Plant Texture - Miramare

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.

Surgeon - Empty Cloud

@bloody-mary celebrates 15 years of @dame-music with a three-part vinyl series, featuring Thomas P. Heckmann, E-Bony, Hardfloor and more

Vol. 1 is set for release on 28th March 2025 – have an exclusive first listen to the label head’s blistering contribution, ‘Fractal Waves’ now

More info: https://djmag.com/listen/premiere-bloody-mary-fractal-waves

Premiere: Bloody Mary ‘Fractal Waves’

Stream/buy/more: https://SuperstitionRecords.lnk.to/Traffic

Joker Jam's trance classic "Innocence" is back, re-released on Superstition Records with five key versions that helped define its legacy. Remastered for the modern day, the release features Paul Van Dyk's legendary TPOD remix, the original mix, a stomping tribal version, Planisphere's widescreen take and a delicate chill-out intro. Sharper, deeper and still full of heart. Innocence sounds as vital today as ever.

Innocence (Remastered)

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Innocence (Paul Van Dyk TPOD Rемiх)

‘Lost’ cements you into a vacuum of suffocating synths that precede a poundin kick. You’re propelled into the tunnel of no escape

The bridge of the track is a course in restraint, giving way to menacing relentless drive & looping side sticks. Siren like washes take hold, swirling & disorientating the listener
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MIX-UP VOL.2 Live at The Liquid Room - Tokyo

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259 - Jeff Mills ‎– Live At The Liquid Room - Tokyo (1996)

PREVIEW TRACKLISTING : 
01. Ken Ishii feat. Jazztronik - After The Rainstorm (Hideo Kobayashi Remix) : 00:00-02:30
02. Ken Ishii feat. Jazztronik - After The Rainstorm (H.I.D. Dub) : 02:30–05:00

RELEASE DATE : 2018-04-30
AVAILABLE AT : Beatport / Juno Download

LABEL : 70 Drums
ARTIST : Ken Ishii feat. Jazztronik
TITLE : After The Rainstorm (Hideo Kobayashi Remix Remastered)
CAT : SDEP201D
TRACKS : 2

Ken Ishii teams up with Jazztronik a.k.a. Ryota Nozaki, one of the Japanese club jazz greats since the '90's, for the timeless techno masterpiece, 'After The Rainstorm.'

Now, Japanese techno & deep house veteran Hideo Kobayashi transforms it into this superb remix in perfect balance between Jazztronik's pianos and Kobayashi's heavy duty groove. It will surely create special vibes on dance floors. 

The EP contains a remastered version of the remix and a new dub mix by H.I.D., the side project of Kobayashi himself.

After The Rainstorm (Hideo Kobayashi Remix Remastered)

Ken Ishii Feat. Jazztronik - After The Rainstorm (Hideo Kobayashi Remix Remastered) [70 Drums]

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https://hrdflr.de/produkt/the-business-of-basslines-remixes-12-vinyl-schwarz/

digital:
https://hardfloor.bandcamp.com/album/hf026-tbob-remixes

HF026 - The Business Of Basslines - Remixes(snippets)

Techno DJ / Producer, Tokyo Japan

Pushing forward-thinking electronic music and playing around the world since 1993.

The founder of the label 70 Drums and the co-brewer of KIKK IPA.

Ken Ishii - Twitched (Original Mix) (Preview) [Different Is Different]

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