Long term Seven Hills friend and collaborator Thee J Johanz returns to wax for the third instalment of our original release series. 

This release runs close to the heart for Johanz as it was produced in the wake of his mother’s passing and stands as a profoundly personal eulogy for loved ones passed. Where Goes Your Soul? has all the trademark spiralling synth lines and hypnotic rhythm making that we have come to love in Johanz’s music making. 

The title track of the EP: Where Goes Your Soul? stands alone on the A side but carries more than enough weight to hold its own. Stabbing synths build alongside a subtly haunting vocal, up to an awesome crescendo and intoxicating groove. Kicking off the B side is Two C Bee, an aptly psychedelic mix of soft pads and helical synth arpeggios. The EP closes with an impressive bubbling analogue landscape, Analex. This beat-less masterpiece with a sincerely cinematic feel, rounds things off in style.

A - Where Goes Your Soul?
B1 - Two Cee Bee
B2 - Analex

Mastered by Thee J Johanz
Distributed by Subwax
Artwork by Maria Vorobjova

SHR003 - Thee J Johanz - Where Goes Your Soul?

L-O-N-D-O-N LONDON that's where we're coming from.

Label: PENG ‎– PENG90
Format: Vinyl, 12", 45 RPM
Country: Germany
Released: July 2021
Genre: Electronic
Style: Acid Breaks, UK Garage, Grime

LDN TWN EP

A. WCM 2 LDN

https://kiddmisha.bandcamp.com/album/the-alien-interview

Kiddmisha - The Alien Interview 👽 (album)

Komponente & Kurilo is a Ukrainian electronic duo 
recording trancehouse on analog instruments from the 90s. 

A side track "Witchmaster" is a rolling, hi tech, reductionist groove with 
melancholic chords and a tripped out scrape on every club that's truly mind melting. 
A2 is "From The Picture Through The Light", a more mysterious and subdued 
effort with a broken beat, tripped out vocal samples and rising, 
tunnelling chords that altogether combined will push you right into the void. 

On the flip, "Gilgamesh" turn more raucous thanks to the nervous bundle of cowbells 
and snares spewing from all angles. "The Beginning of Time" gives it a more acid and energetic makeover with 
a more rolling groove, the track a wonky and claustrophobic vibe that makes you feel like you're 
dancing on downers.

A1. Komponente/Kurilo - Witchmaster

One Eye Witness

B1 Molecules Of Life

Release : June 2022

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SAISEI founder Junki Inoue continues his vital archival work uncovering the riches of Japan’s distinctive electronic music scene and bringing them to new audiences around the world. The Sounds Of Transonic compiles six tracks recorded in Tokyo between 1991 and 1995 and released by the pioneering Transonic label, founded in 1994 by Kazunao Nagata and active until 2004.
Transonic’s catalogue is a glittering roll call of the scene’s major players, whose inventive and genre-blending work established forward-thinking house and techno in Japan in a way that would shape the country’s electronic sound for years to come. Transonic was instrumental in giving exposure to the work of these artists with its emblematic series of CD compilations, released over a short couple of years in the mid 90s. Beginning with 970-1450km/h, Feedback and Range, the series also included The Roots Of Transonic, featuring music from parent label Trigger. Alongside these compilations came much sought-after solo albums each packaged with striking cover art that makes the discs a visual treat for collectors to this day.
The Sounds Of Transonic brings together six tracks from the catalogue into one breath-taking package. The influence of hi-tech jazz and machine funk from Detroit is undeniable in ‘Dream Trance’ (Mind Design) and ‘Blasting Soul’ (Interferon), while ‘Under The Ground’ (Palomatic) and ‘Chelsea’ (Suzukiski) are permeated by the artificial intelligence and trip hop emanating from the UK at the time. The compilation is bookended by two tracks by Nagata himself (as Organization): ‘Space Ball’, a Model 500-worthy chase through the cosmos, and ‘Call’, an eerie echo of Kraftwerk’s telephone, transmitting expectantly out into the void and, finally, receiving its celestial answer.
With The Sounds Of Transonic these formative pieces of music will now be available internationally and, for the first time, on vinyl.
SAISEI is a Japanese word which translates to ‘reproduction’ and ‘to play’ (as in playing records). Japanese culture is widely known for its traditional nature just as much as it is for being forward into the future and this label’s concept does justice to exactly that. Having started digging for records as early as 16 years old, Inoue delved into productions from 1990s Japan to uncover these native gems. SAISEI’s core concept is to recapture and reintroduce unique pieces of Japanese electronic music onto vinyl, to an audience it never reached before as most of this music was only released in Japan.

A1. Organisation - Space Ball (snippet)

YELLOOO

Medeli AK603 Dance 091 Club DJ

Feel Me

AC004 - Modus - Super-Kamio EP
A1 - Super-Kamio
B1 - Breeze
B2 - Off the Grid

AC004 - Modus - Super-Kamio EP

A3. Kiddmisha - Retrodance (Out now on Tone Dropout 12")

12" catalog:

MRS004  
ALLN003
STRV001
NNS001
FOXTRAX009
HOW002
FOXTRAXLTD08
NNS002
BBR013
BBR15
TDO10
FM002
DOM007