Playground is releasing a very special compilation to celebrate nine years of life. A musical journey shared with dear friends, which expresses the living history of the label from its origins to the present. From the first illegal raves in Buenos Aires, to becoming an international artist's platform based in Barcelona. A long process of learning, growth and consolidation have passed. Nowadays, with an extensive catalog of more than 40 references Playground has a solid story to tell, always selecting an eclectic criterion and betting on diversity. Each launch reaffirms the commitment with an aesthetic freedom beyond any label.

The '9 Years Compilation' faithfully expresses our history, but above all our present, always with an eye looking to the future. 15 new original tracks carefully chosen to create a polychromatic musical adventure, with diverse nuances and intensities. From downtempo songs to listen at home, through music inspired by the new wave, the creative force of the jungle, the power of organic elements and psychedelic experimentation to the most convincing music for the club.

We are proud to introduce the team of notables who have come together especially to bring this wonderful creature to life: Sascha Funke, Curses, Iñigo Vontier, Shubostar, Theus Mago, Local Suicide & Franz Matthews, Thomas Von Party & Fabio Me Llaman Soltero, Niv Ast, MR TC, Thomass Jackson & MKDSL, Middle Sky Boom, Stevie R & Parisinos, Teniente Castillo, Kate Stein feat. Vongold, Martin Noise & A-Tweed.

Playground 9 Years Compilation

PREMIERE: Iñigo Vontier - Jocho (Original Mix)

Part of "Echoes Of The Quadrature" compilation by Insectorama.

What It Was (Original Mix) (2022)

Heavily influenced by the acid house/rave scene “back in the day” at parties like Resurrection, Awesome 101's & Sweatbox, Rob Murray started his DJ journey with passion and verve. He’d put in the hours practicing at home and played at every party he got the opportunity to. Encouraged by friends to hand out mixes on cassette tapes, his audience soon grew and his name started to become known as a reliable selector by ravers and fellow DJ’s alike. One such follower was Scottish rave heavyweight DJ ZBD who Rob handed a mix tap at their local record shop in Kirkcaldy. Club gigs started to come his way including performances at Meltdown at Carlton Studios. He was on the right track to keep raising his profile but then had to put things on hold when he took on a job that would take him overseas for some time. After a long break Rob Murray is back doing what he loves. With residencies on 4TM and Waves Radio shows he is able to showcase his love for indie dance, acid house, chug and downtempo and his audience is once again growing, as is reputation.

Tracklist
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Calma Tensa - Respect (Itako remix) 
Girls Chat Room - Bebé Ácido 
Ian Vale - Hybrid Outing 
ALF CHAMPION & MDHNTR - Gnic Nad - Drum Version (Il Est Vilaine Remix) 
DECIUS - Magenta Overlord 
Back From The Wave & Endrik Schroeder - Acid Control (Fabrizio Mammarella Remix) 
Jason Peters - Strange to Be Alive (JP's More Acid Dub) 
Cut Copy - Son God (Andrew Weatherall Remix) 
Radio Slave - Wake Up 
Moozeic - Pandora 9 (Forest Louche) 
Justin Bond & Mindbender - One Night In Stockholm (slEdger Remix) 
Anatolian Weapons - Relief Acid 

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Counterterraism Guest Mix 311: Rob Murray

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With Lucifer, Kompakt presents an album of rare beauty from two masters of modern music. A family affair, it’s a collaboration between the Italian father-and-son duo of Luciano Michelini and Lorenzo Dada, whose combined histories bring to Lucifer a depth of experience alongside clarity of vision and a finely tuned, neatly developed combined compositional voice. A lovely, beguiling suite of music that combines the electronic and the acoustic, the urban and the pastoral, its gorgeous night-eye vision and tender melancholy sits neatly within the Kompakt universe, while offering the curious listener some rich new perspectives.

There is already plenty to know both artists by. Lorenzo Dada creates across multiple fields – a techno producer and DJ who has already worked with the likes of Jay Haze, Fete, Leo Benassi, and Der, he’s released a small clutch of stylish, smartly designed EPs, and a solo album, Second Life (2018). His complementary background in classical music and composition informs his ensemble project, Tears Of Blue (who appear on Lucifer), where Dada paints with neo-classical tones for a quartet of violin, viola, cello and grand piano, supplemented by electronics for live performance.

Luciano Michelini’s history is yet richer. He may be best known, to many, for his piece “Frolic”, the theme to Larry David’s Curb Your Enthusiasm series; it was also sampled by Snoop Dogg for 2022’s “Crip Ya Enthusiasm”. But there’s much more to Michelini’s story. A successful soundtrack composer, Michelini both studied and taught at the Conservatoro di Santa Cecilia, and worked for RCA from the sixties to the eighties; his soundtracks from this period are gorgeous examples of the form, particularly his work for Il Decamerone Nero (1972), L’Isola Degli Uomini Pesce (1979), and the devastatingly gorgeous Dimensione Donna (1977).

In the eighties, Michelini and his wife Anna Gutling founded the Electronic Music Division studio and academy in Rome, which is where the majority of Lucifer was recorded. Dada reflects on the experience: “We never worked together before, so it was all new for both of us,” with Michelini adding, “I truly love this experience with my son. He’s a talented pianist and composer. I am not very familiar with electronic music nowadays, but we did it fluently.” There’s certainly a familial energy at play through Lucifer, and you can hear how Dada and Michelini, through exploration and experiment, find a shared language, balancing Dada’s tendency toward minimalism, and Michelini’s composerly voice.

Lucifer flows as a suite that interweaves electronic music with acoustic instruments: the lonely sigh of saxophone; Michelini’s lush, verdant piano; the weeping strings of Tears Of Blue (recorded at the studio of Michelini’s friend, the late Maestro, Ennio Morricone). These multiple voices are located within the electronic sighs and swarms from Dada’s kit; there are moments of propulsion, and passages of lambent drift, where the album revels in its tonal sweetness. If it flows so effortlessly, that’s because Lucifer was designed that way, as a suite or a sonata of sorts.

And the title? Dada reflects, “Lucifer was an angel who decided not to be one anymore. The miracle of life is that we can decide what we want to be, even if we are born as angels or vice versa.” This feels somehow apposite: there’s certainly something of the transformative, and the transportive, in Lucifer, a unique family collaboration of rare poetry and sensitivity, where two generations meet in the modern crucible that is the electronic music studio.

Lucifer

Contemporary Lullaby

Lorenzo Dada / Luciano Michelini / Tears of Blue - Contemporary Lullaby

Child of the late Bar25, where she saw her nights turn into days, Warum stands as an heiress to a globalized minimalism, open to the world. A collector, Warum is radical and demanding. In just about a decade, she has managed to build a timeless collection, beyond the boundaries set by record bin labels. Oscillating between classic tracks and unjustly overlooked gems, Warum now delivers sets with a sensitive and unique sound design, offering a dancefloor experience that is delicate, melodic, yet incredibly percussive.

Magma - Jam RTBF Residency / Warum - 15.06.2024

DC Promo Tracks: Love Over Entropy "5step3" on Special place recordings @special-place-rec

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For Love over Entropy, music is all about ideas. Experimenting with different workflows and taking influences from a wide range of artists, he eschews formulas and tries to infuse every track with a life of its own. As a result, ever since the first release in 2013, his music is primarily shaped by his own musical fascinations instead of genre conventions. Crucial to his tracks is a sense of internal logic and flow, that also extends into his live sets.

At an abstract level, Love over Entropy's music draws inspiration from the Ligne Claire aesthetic. This is a style of drawing made famous by Belgian cartoonist Hergé in the 1930s, but which goes back even further, to Japanese woodblock cuts from the 17th century. Very much like those woodblock cuts, Love over Entropy's music is precise yet organic. To the point yet rich. Abstract yet familiar.

Love Over Entropy wished to name this EP 'Pleioné'. In Greek mythology, Pleioné was an Oceanid nymph and mother of the Pleiades. Pleioné presided over the multiplication of the flocks. This title thus seems utterly fitting, since the music seems to keep on coming and going, the same yet different, repeated yet with sounds adding to each other in waves. The whole gives a sense of being so subtle and deep that the mind gets to float freely in an boundless ocean of sounds.

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DC Promo Tracks: Love Over Entropy "5step3"

Written and produced by Serafim Tsotsonis 

Artwork by Stelios Strongylis
Mastered by George Priniotakis at Artracks Studios
Self Released

Flying Lovers

part of my 12 track album TRIPS on Bandcamp

TRIPS Album

Benedikt Frey - SUN (Ode)

Violet

those 8 or so off notes in pattern 3 are intentional. this isnt for you if you dislike high pitched stuff or bad music 

ideation2inspiration

download at RinseFm: http://85.17.94.10/rinse/podcast/PantheraKrause111219.mp3

Rinse France Podcast  

Panthera Krause at Rinse Fm France (Dec 11 2019)

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