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Epic, brooding, chugging electro-tinged slo-mo techno with snatches of feisty vocals that should appeal to a wide range of selectors and listeners alike. Great work from the London-based @hardtantoine, boss of new label @reculturelondon

PREMIERE: Hardt Antoine - Tonight (12" Extended Mix) [Reculture Records]

Spaceship EP

Planet Gold

Low Volume is a collaboration between two talented Indian born producers Pawas and Ambrish. The EP features three original tracks including remixes by Nhar and Mastra.

Look behind is a calm and melodic track that develops a wonderful drive with the help of the varied bassline, the acid-infused parts used coming across very playful.
Nhar's remix masterfully takes over the melodic elements of the original but catapults the track back into the eighties with the skillfully reinterpreted synth parts, the concise clap and the vocals.

The minimal house number Apache Gold impresses with its reduction paired with groovy-dubby bassline and a cleverly staged guitar hook.

Topsides, nevertheless more subtle, strings together sophisticated synth parts in a varied way and garnishes them with pads and funky-tinged synth elements.
Mastra's remix focuses more on the calm synth parts, which he uses more concisely and combines with additional rhythm elements.

Look Behind

Low Volume - Look Behind (Nhar Remix)

Buy/stream: https://kompakt.fm/releases/total_21

TOTAL turns 21 this year, and Kompakt’s venerable compilation series couldn’t have asked for a more auspicious coming-of-age collection. If TOTAL 20 was consolidation against the odds, the Kompakt crew producing for a dreamt-of dancefloor in an uncertain future, then TOTAL 21 feels abuzz and alive with possibilities. Significantly, it’s the first TOTAL in some time that’s streamlined down to a single disc; this makes TOTAL 21 even punchier than usual, a joyous, reflective, and always thrilling 75-minute audio scan of the world according to Kompakt.

As with every instalment of TOTAL, there’s a deft balancing here of Kompakt regulars and new blood. Of the latter, there’s a first appearance by KOLLMORGEN, remixed by PATRICE BÄUMEL into an astral torch song; Amsterdam’s NICKY ELISABETH, offering up ROMAN FLÜGEL’s pulsating, arpeggiated remix of “Celeste”; and CAPTAIN MUSTACHE swoops down into view, PLAY PAUL in tow, with the dream-like electro lift-off that is “Everything”. JONATHAN KASPAR also drops by with a new track, “Von Draussen”, a stealthy and lethal floor-hugger with prowling bass.

Elsewhere, there’s the lead track to MICHAEL MAYER’s astonishing recent EP, “Brainwave Technology”, which not-so-gently spears the tech-futurist babble of AI, transhumanism and posthumanism, soundtracked by one of Mayer’s typically lush, glimmering soundscapes. JOHN TEJADA reaches back to the heyday of glitch and dub techno with the gorgeous “Spectral Progressions”, while the brothers VOIGT & VOIGT, on “Nicht Mein Job”, seem reinvigorated by the interwoven patterns and funky minimalism of the Profan days. Not to be outdone, JÜRGEN PAAPE kicks TOTAL 21 with “La Guittara Romantica”, a chiming and lilting lullaby for woozy late-night reflection.

Throughout, it feels as though Kompakt are taking a moment to both breathe in the dust of the past and look forward to a bright future. Perhaps that’s why, on “Fasson”, SASCHA FUNKE seems so confident, with pinprick melodies bouncing around a hall of audio mirrors, or why THE BIONAUT returns with “Blue Sky Motor Lodge”, a song so moistly melancholy, so enduringly lovely, it’ll make you weep tears of joy. ROBAG WRUHME gets a little delirious on the ticking, twisting “No”, and then GUI BORATTO mops everything up with the bubbling, bumping glam-stomp “Wake Up”.

That’s not all – spring for the digital and/or vinyl edition and you’ll get a new cut, “Happy”, from MICHAEL MAYER, and MARC ROMBOY & C.A.R.’s “I Am A Dancer”. But however you choose to play it, now TOTAL’s turned 21, it’s your duty to throw it the celebration to end all celebrations. Let the party begin, and don’t forget to bring a party favor…

Robag Wruhme - No

The electroacoustic 4-piece band NORLYZ release their 3rd single "Organ Symphony" with a very jazzy techno Andre Lodemann Remix on Best Works Records. It is taken from their upcoming debut album on NORLYZ MUSIC. With their danceable and cinematic arrangements, the 4 musicians present their very own sound: the warmth and fragility of acoustic instruments meet the precision and energy of analog synthesizers and sequencers, carried by complex, polyrhythmic drum patterns and enveloped by detailed sound design. The skillfully produced compositions create an overall dramaturgy that belongs as much to the concert hall as to the dance floor.

NORLYZ are:
Paul David Heckhausen - Synthesizer, Ableton, Handpan, Percussion
Gábor Hartyáni - Cello
Philipp Püschel - Trumpet, Flügelhorn
Lasse Golz - Saxophone, Bass Clarinet

NORLYZ
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Organ Symphony

NORLYZ - Organ Symphony

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May 12
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Captain Mustache & Jean Brock „La Vertu“
La Vertu
La Vertu (Jean Brock Edit)
La Vertu (Play Paul Remix)

Captain Mustache is a French music producer and DJ from Paris. Since 2020, he made releases on some of the greatest labels of the scene: Kompakt, Exploited, Mobilee, Permanent Vacation, Helena Hauff's Return To Disorder, and a full album on John Digweed's Bedrock Records, with a constant support from the best DJ's in the world. As a true electronic music lover, he worked with some electro idols (Dave Clarke, Chicks on Speed, Adamski, The Advent, Paris The Black Fu, Keith Tucker from AUX88...) to bring an extra vocal dimension to his music. Inspired by 80's pioneers, Detroit techno and electroclash, we can define his sound as romantic & burlesque. Be sure, Mustache is the future.

La Vertu

Beatport Download

Captain Mustache & Jean Brock - La Vertu (Jean Brock Edit)

Carlitos says: “When I see you, I see that you can see, and yet I know very well that you can't.”

Link: bigamo.lnk.to/Carlitos

Keope – Carlitos

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Five Years Lost

Easylee

Mild Bang, Tyrone, Dani Lu - Good Intentions (original mix)

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Ellroy - Zeche (Pablo Bolivar Remake)

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