‘Underwater' is the perfect summer club track, meeting all your DJ needs for that special moment you want to create time and again. Equally effective as an uplifting terrace tune when rays from the sun caress your face, or as that unique end of night track when the addictive hook stays locked in the audience's mind, the words cascading over and over - creating the type of lifetime memory that only a wondrous track at the right moment in the right place can.

BOg x 19:26 x Diana Miro - Underwater (Massano Remix)

Agents Of Time, Fideles - Drain

Buy/stream: https://kompakt.fm/releases/universo

Italian duo Agents Of Time have been incredibly busy over the past few years, from releasing a string of classic singles – including their recent single for Afterlife, “The Mirage”, which earned more than five million views on Instagram – to remixing The Weeknd’s “Take My Breath”, which appeared on his recent Dawn FM (Alternative World). But the biggest news is here now – their second album, Universo, is ready. Elevating their trademark melodic techno with an exquisite pop-ness, Universo has found its ideal home with Kompakt, following their Music Made Paradise 2020 debut EP for the label. It’s a meeting of minds that makes perfect sense.

Andrea Di Ceglie and Luigi Tutolo, the two members of Agents Of Time, used their time during the pandemic to work on Universo, an album loosely conceptualised around their ‘personal universo’, a manifestation of the world Di Ceglie and Tutolo built both within and around their studio. This accounts for the sparkle and brightness of Universo – it’s full of personality, vim and vigour, the duo experimenting with their music, exploring its furthest corners. If you come to Universo expecting just another album of melodic techno, get ready to be pleasantly surprised – there’s a whole lot more going on here, and it’s all equally compelling.

After a typically poetic opening gesture – the swirling, synaesthetic, self-titled intro track – expectations are immediately blindsided with the two-step pop of “Fallin’”, sung with gentle clarity by guest Audrey Janssens, a dream of a song that harks back to the glory days of early ‘00s UK garage. “Interstellar Cowboy” is a confident, lithe, disco-fied strut; the gentle minor-key piano of “Liquid Fantasy” spirals into a gorgeously melancholy techno-pop epic, Vicky Who?’s voice rich with yearning. Janssens also reappears on the electro-swirl of “Poison”; “Dream Vision” revisits their single “The Mirage”, soft with sweeping strings, loaded with drama; “Part Of Life” sashays into view with a schaffel-stomp.

This rich variety throws the more dancefloor-focused tracks, like “Ciao”, into even starker relief – they’re more decisive, streamlined, yet rich with detail, chugging, Moroder-esque bass meeting strobe-lit synths that fire melodies out into the firmament. Universo feels texturally dense, but it still breathes, its sounds so tactile you want to reach out and grab them, its tunes so seductive you can’t get them out of your head. Universo is a fiercely beautiful album, brave in its spirit, a perfectly poised meeting-point of pop melody and stylish, lush techno: Agents Of Time in excelsis.

Universo

Agents Of Time - Ciao

Agents Of Time - Universo

The first ever release on HABITAT is out now. 

Off the upcoming Metaflora compilation out June 23 feat. Dyzen, Aether, Marino Canal and more.

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"Criseide" features a sample extract of "Cool Like You" by Virginia Slimm.

Mind Against & Sideral - Criseide

Ae:ther - Merlino

Posterity

Buy / Stream: https://lnk.to/ROCPtVI

Dare to transcend to another level as we traverse a whole new Realm Of Consciousness with the latest installment of Afterlife’s genre-defining compilation series. An innovative showcase of the label’s output, this comprehensive compilation represents the community-focused ethos of Afterlife and its founders, Tale Of Us.
Each new release brings together established names, alongside a range of newcomers, building the label’s core roster and cultivating an eternal legacy. Like previous entries in the series, Part VI is rooted in eclecticism, exploring the needs of emotion through the transmission of sonic expression from a variety of talented artists.
Join us, as we ascend to the next Realm Of Consciousness.

8Kays & braev - Basic (Extended Mix)

This is a sister track to Anticipation. I wanted to do a continuation with a bit more variation.

Guide

NECRONOMICON DREAMS - ABOVE THE PLATEAU

Voices From The Future

Science Park

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