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)

Zillas on Acid is Thomas Roland and James Weissinger, resident DJs for fifteen years and counting at MAKING TIME, Philadelphia's never-ending nightlife institution. 

Since the 2019 release of their EPs Black Cat (Optimo Music) and She Takes NRG (Ivan smagghe's Les Disques De la mort), the Zillas have been busy building a steady catalog of EPs, tracks, and remixes for labels like Polari, Nocturne, Dischi Autunno, Inside Out, Multi Culti, Throne of Blood, Microdosing, and more. Along the way, they’ve garnered support from futuristic fellow travelers like Roman Flügel, Dixon, Jennifer Cardini, Justin Strauss, Bradley Zero, Sean Johnston, and many others. Deep in the studio or out in the club, the Zillas mix slow-motion death disco, dubbed-out drum machine music, and of course ACID to excite party people from all planets.

Track list
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Anatolian Weapons - A Strange Light from the East (Zillas on Acid remix)
Hermetics - Ride the Tiger
Dreems - An Ancient Eddiitt
Cornelius Doctor & Rita - Dogs in the Streets
ALTC - Liquid Factories
From Beyond - Vortexion
Khidja - Serpent
Fantastic Twins - Pilgrims
Bunzinelli - Godspeed
DC Salas - Healing is a Process
The Avalanches - Flight Tonight (Canyons Travel Agent Dub)
Moisk - Melancholic Raver
BĘÃTFÓØT - People As Me

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Counterterraism Guest Mix 214: Zillas On Acid

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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

I released it a couple of years ago after a long gestation period. It's in some ways an expression of 35 years absorbing electronic dance music. 
It's one of my favourite creations...
Anyway...the algorithm doesn't agree so it's barely reached 1000 listens...

Ikronoklast - EP

Ikronoklast

Email/requests/booking: dorianflagrant@gmail.com

From melancholic disco sounds at sunset, head into the city of sins at night. Naively start wandering before falling into the abyss of rock & psychedelic melodies. Darkness with a shed of light... and bouncy drums.

Recorded live on April 29th, 2024

Tracklist:
1- Lucha Libre - Dorothys Fortress
2- San Andreas Sunset (Extended Mix) - Nu Disco Bitches
3- Psycho Killer (DE SOFFER REMIX) - Talking Heads
4- Sin City - Darlyn Vlys, Damon Jee
5- Getting You out of My System - Mouissie
6- How Do You Do? (Todd Terje remix) - Hot Chip
7- Signal (Tulum Mix feat. Marc El Khoury) - Pete Tong, Goom Gum
8- Pressure - Fel C
9- DIRIDIM - David Morales
10- Protocol - ORISS, Adam Sellouk
11- Hawkins - WESKA
12- Aelckxgeland - Rodriguez Jr
13- Fire (Pardon Moi Remix) - Inaktiv
14- Underwater - DJ Chus
15- Daft Punk Is Playing at My House (Soulwax Shibuya Mix) - LCD Soundsystem
16- Rebost - AFFKT
17- Insomnia 2021 (Epic Mix) - Faithless, Maceo Plex (little banger to finish)

Set 003 ☼ From a Disco Sunset to a Bouncy Dark Wave ☼ Dorian Flagrant

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

Play, download, and actually own the full length version in much better quality (and with a much fairer deal for the artist) on Bandcamp:
https://cottonbud.bandcamp.com/album/shelves-2024

Written & Produced by Rich Lane ©2024
Mixed and Mastered @ Cotton Bud Mastering

Rich Lane - Shelves (Chug Norris Decade Remix)

THE L&F RECS EP.1 with REMAIN, REMOTE, THE HACKER - PART 1

Otto Taimela returns with his second album for London ambient free divers SWIMS, following 2024’s celebrated "Inner Beauty".

"Uncommon & Fragile" departs from Otto's meadowed, ivory-centric introspections, reaching further into binaural sound design, trance pointillism, and groundswells of angular percussion. This is less a club record, more something to soothe post-rave tinnitus on the bus home. 

”I guess you could say that this is the outcome of a great need for escapism. I’m not the biggest fan of the current timeline, so I wanted to make something pretty, splashy, colourful and quirky just for myself. Embracing simplicity in a way of leaning towards maximalism without getting too suffocated. It’s a ’dear diary’-kinda album….”
-Otto

▫️Mastered for vinyl by Giuseppe Ielasi
▫️Housed in printed sleeves designed by Esquive Studio
▫️Shrink wrapped for mint guarantee
▫️Limited to 150 copies

BUY THE VINYL

Not Afraid Anymore [SWIM16]

Argo – Black Mirage x.Nikan (Original Mix)
Produced by Argo
hang drum: [nikan]
Release date: 11/12/2025

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Argo – Black Mirage x.Nikan (Original Mix)

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