Dark March

COR.S - M3

Would you come back?  is an ethereal roller that’s hard to place in terms of genre. Orchestral pads, trance arps and a loose garage beat topped by Bulu’s ghostly vocals make for a versatile tune for the radio, club, or the tube ride to work.

Would You Come Back? EP

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Would You Come Back?

Far from the superclubs of Ibiza, there’s an underground electronic music movement growing in Spain. In Madrid and Barcelona, and outposts in Valencia, Seville and A Coruña, an emerging faction of DJs, producers, labels, record shops, venues and festivals is dancing to a different beat. Subterranean electro and astral braindance are the driving genres, with booming 808 drum machines, acid sequences, spectral synths and breakbeats coalescing in a vibrant and rapidly expanding scene.

Alongside a mix from scene figurehead @anniehallmusic, Ben Murphy talks to some of the people behind this growing scene, and finds out why it’s happening now

Read the feature: https://djmag.com/features/machine-yearning-diving-deep-spanish-electro-scene

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Spain's electro underground, mixed by Annie Hall

Aïsha Devi nurtures an idiosyncratic approach to her music. She describes her sound as Aetherave, and uses bassy-heavy club motifs and intentional aesthetic signifiers to transport listeners to a dizzying, kinetic environment, harnessing timeless frequencies. On each record, Devi has advanced her philosophy and developed her technology; her last album 'DNA Feelings' was a radical hybrid of ancient mysticism and rebellious pop, and 'Death is Home' propels listeners towards the extremes, bending fictile beats and cybernetic textures into transformational songs. This eagerly-awaited new album is a livable, breathable sonic essence that reveals itself alchemically, reorienting anachronistic cultural preconceptions with its contemporary, ornate language and eerie architecture.

'Death is Home' is ultimately a manifesto. It's Devi's most revealing work to date and a direct result of her personal evolution and ongoing quest. Growing up under the shadow of isolation and abuse, she formed her practice as a healing method, using it to neutralize her past and recreate an alternate, more hospitable reality - beyond the human condition. 
Her feelings were compounded when she tracked down the whereabouts of her father B.K. Gurung, a Nepali drummer whom she never knew. Devi was informed he had died young, but rather than perceive this as a binary, through mourning, she realized that his existence had already offered her a lifeline and a refuge. 

Devi's words and productions reach out to a place where weightlessness has the power to dissolve the corporeal world's manufactured terror of death. Without this trepidation, life's boundaries and limitations fall away. "Burn the flesh, a Deva's born," she sings over tense, pneumatic kicks on 'Not Defined by the Visible'. Her voice is contorted by electronic processes, but the meaning is human: to reach the holy, we must shed our skin. The narrative that guides the album unfurls with the plasticity of an open-world videogame, a space where one can unravel the dogma of life vs. death. On 'Lick Your Wounds', Devi reveals her deepest trauma, pacifying it with rousing, ritualistic rhythms and melancholic pads. "Vapors of violence remain in my broken bones, intoxicate my DNA," she invokes. "I'll lick my wounds and heal at night. I'll take over." She extends this invitation to anybody tuned in to her signals, providing lodging for those that crave it. Birth is virtual. Death is home.

Death Is Home

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Immortelle

Martina del Fuego - After Hours EP disponible en:

https://melodykrafter.bandcamp.com/album/after-hours-ep



Martina del Fuego - 2001

Vect

AAAA — X Scroll Era
Umor Rex / catalog UR152 
LP vinyl, digital and streaming 
Release date: September 13, 2024 

Through X Scroll Era, Gabo Barranco, aka AAAA, conducts a rigorous overhaul of the aesthetics and statements of low-profile IDM, trance, and progressive-acid music typical of the early 2000’s. In addition to this inherent and undeniable veneration for the era, the pieces on this album — which originated from recordings and experimental exercises with gear and accidentally became an album — serve also as a kind of retrospective inspection of Mexico City's suburbs (Lomas de Sotelo), with landscapes full of indiscriminate concrete, highways of two and three levels, factories, and parking lots that have supplanted nature with their own detached beauty. It is a sound memory, a specific melancholy that praises skate squads of the area, friends from the past, parties, and substances. It reviews the decline of rave culture but also its resilience and capacity for transformation. What AAAA offers us with X Scroll Era is an almost multigenerational soundtrack, a memory that feels collective and recollects euphoria, ecstasy, and nostalgia.
After several LPs and EPs (Acid Test, Omnidisc, Janushoved) and several years active in the dance and contemplative electronic music circuit (MUTEK, BERGHAIN, iii Points, RBMA), X Scroll Era is the first album by Gabo Barranco, aka AAAA, published on the Mexican label Umor Rex.

All music composed, produced and mixed by Gabo Barranco aka AAAA in Centro Histórico, Mexico City, between January and April 2024. Mastered by Rafael Anton Irisarri at Black Knoll Studio, NY.
Photos by Mateo Barbuzzi. Design by Daniel Castrejón.

Umor Rex Records © Mexico 2024 / UPC: 796520479906  
Press & general inquiries: editor@umor-rex.com 
Worldwide distributed by Morr Music Distribution GmbH

X Scroll Era

AAAA - X Scroll Era

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Bandcamp: https://jadelabel.bandcamp.com/album/parallel-version-jad025
Release Date: November 11th, 2024
Info: Kamyar Ring's second release on J A D E, Parallel Version is an EP somewhere between a love of analog sounds, meditation, and a definite passion for Electro / Dub-Techno; the Iranian artist's master style.
To be played in clubs or listened to alone on the move, the atmosphere of these 4 tracks will take you through a range of emotions, inspiring and warm as they are rhythmic and dark.

*PREMIERE* Kamyar Ring - Parallel Version

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