As Figure begins to move into the next chapter of its label history, label founder Len Faki has teamed up with young French talent Roman Poncet for the 54th release. Poncet's debut on the label dropped last year with the excellent 'Cerate' cutting a clear path for his precisely executed modern techno sound. 

Teaming up in the studio, Faki and Poncet have crafted 'Asua' - a mesmerising display of production skill and a testament to the duo's true understanding of hypnosis. Pushing from the start with its urgent bassline the track builds and morphs its intertwining elements, introducing subtle textures and suggestions of melody - a classic Figure late night ritual. 

Alongside, we have original tracks from both Len Faki and Roman themselves. Faki's thunderous and aptly titled 'Stripped' works his powerhouse percussion along with a textured dub-stab in this straight up club trip. 

Finally with 'Truck' Roman Poncet completes the EP, his rough synth stabs and metallic percussion driving this moody tension builder ever forward.


Len Faki & Roman Poncet - Asua SNIPPET

Presenting: ANIMA #004 - Hekato

We are thrilled to announce… Hekato is officially joining the ANIMA family as a Resident ~

Always moving with elegance and grace, Hekato is an artist who's been present on the scene since 2019. As a co-founder of the rising Całość label and collective, she has established herself as one of Poland's most recognizable talents and rapidly growing artists. With a series of outstanding performances in the country, she caught our eyes, and captivated our ears; thus becoming a frequent guest in Berlin - Visiting venues such as About Blank, Else, and Tresor in the last year.

Hekato has been involved in music and art since childhood. She learned folk singing and dancing as a child, and was also drawn towards painting. Julia is originally from Rybnik, but now lives in Wroclaw, where she is developing her musical career. Initially fascinated by deep techno, she began to lean towards faster sounds as time passed, even incorporating trance accents into her sets. Her performances are devoid of compromise, and she prioritizes quality and originality - which makes her an exceptional fit at ANIMA.

Despite her strong onstage personality, Hekato is an introverted soul who expresses her emotions through music, while taking listeners on a deep sonic journey.  

We cannot wait to share her sound with you ~

To celebrate the union, Hekato has recorded podcast #004 for us - Full of her uncompromising sound and relentlessly beautiful spirit.

You can find the podcast link below, and also on Soundcloud. If you want to catch her live, she will be joined by two other ANIMA residents at MUENZE on New Years Even in Berlin, and also a resident showcase at Tresor’s New Faces on Valentine’s day 2024  ~

Welcome to the family, Hekato 💜

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Jannik Aßfalg - Elixir of Life
Lucas Sosa (AR) - Gitaneo Intenso
Berkel - Orbis (Original Mix)
Rethe - Rocket Science (unreleased)
Tom Healey - Muted Wicks 
Bernossi -  Mein WIlle (Lucas Sosa (AR) Remix) 
Throbbing Head (Original Mix) [KL022]
Rethe - Vulcan (unreleased)
Pakard - Just Another Race [CTDGTL006]
Lucas Sosa (AR) - 5AM (Original Mix)
Rill - Cosmic Pulse
Paul Hauck & IGLO - Early Life
Rill - Swarm
Pakard - Driving Fast [CTDGTL006]
Paul Hauck & IGLO - Sutras
Burden - Pizzicata
Tascamboy - Kazery [MASTER]
Enkō - Loas
KUSS - Nocturnal Contrast
Regent - Off Agenda
OFF/GRID - No Brainer
Mislaw - Flights Of Fancy (unreleased)
DJ Dextro - Gerundio (Original Mix)
Concussion - Synthetic Samba
Dorian Gray - The High of the Idols (Original Mix)
Kameliia - Apart (Original Mix)
Alte Seele (Vril & Marcel Dettmann Bass Mix)

ANIMA #004 - Hekato

We Are Fucking This Up, People

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Amotik 015
AMTK015
01st November 2024 Vinyl
29st November 2024 Digital 

A1 - Amotik - Unnasi
A2 - Amotik - Assi
B1 - Amotik - Ikyasi
B2 - Amotik - Byaasi

https://amotik.bandcamp.com/album/amotik-015

After an exceptional and well-received collaborative EP with Tina Ramamurthy on Amotik 014 earlier in 2024, Amotik picks up where he left off and delivers four sublime solo works for Amotik 015. His self-titled imprint, running since 2015, has been a steady home base for his own productions, quickly becoming an essential catalogue in modern techno. Here, once again, he delivers a full pack of pure techno jams. Whether it’s the swinging percussion hooks in ‘Assi’, the hypnotic groove of ‘Unnasi’, or the banging kick drums of ‘Ikyasi’, this is yet another essential release for every techno enthusiast.

Artwork by Tina Ramamurthy
Mastering by Alain Paul
Distribution by Triple Vision

AMTK015 (Preview)

Ben Klock & Fadi Mohem announce debut collaborative album featuring Coby Sey and Flowdan on new label LAYER

Ben Klock and Fadi Mohem present their first collaborative album on their new label LAYER. The ten-track full length project titled Layer One follows the hypnotic EP Klockworks 34 that set the stage in 2022. In a bold departure from the techno roots that have defined and nurtured their careers, Klock and Mohem are now pushing genre boundaries, exploring IDM, ambient and experimental electronic music while still retaining the brilliance that characterised their earlier work.

The conceptual direction of Layer One delves into a post-human world, where humans are close to extinction on Earth, leaving only imprints, traces, and relics behind—digital fossils and machine-generated images capturing fleeting moments of non-human photography, as Artificial Intelligence remains in a world that quietly thrives without us. We do not perceive this as a bleak apocalyptic dystopia, but more a sober and serene reflection of a world that continues to exist and flourish, indifferent to the absence of humanity. Despite this unremitting setting, through this journey we find survivors who signal a remembrance of the human sensibilities.

Elevating this project are two very human and dynamic collaborations featuring the charismatic Coby Sey and the legendary grime MC Flowdan. Sey, a prominent figure in the British music scene known for his work with artists like Tirzah and Mica Levi, injects his music with a mesmerizing emotional depth. Opening the album with the powerful track ‘Ultimately,’ Sey offers spoken-word musings on creativity and life over experimental landscapes meticulously crafted by Klock and Mohem. Nostalgia permeates this opening track, and track 7 ‘Clean Slate’ reinforces this sentiment with Sey’s stream-of-consciousness wordplay.


Written and produced by Ben Klock and Fadi Mohem
Cat. No. LAYER01 – All rights reserved
℗ & ©️ 2024 LAYER Records

Ben Klock & Fadi Mohem - Layer One

Museum, Pt. 1

Mirrors

https://pro.beatport.com/track/for-the-people-ben-klock-remix/1875573
http://ostgut.de/label/

Rejected - For The People (Ben Klock Remix)

https://pro.beatport.com/track/pong-ben-klocks-bones-and-strings-rework/705700

Kerri Chandler - Pong (Ben Klock's Bones & Strings Rework)

The machine rises. ⛧ MΛCHINΞ RITUΛL: IRON ASCΞNSION ⛧ is a trance-techno ritual forged in iron: hypnotic loops, deep bass, tribal percussion, and industrial resonance layered into an evolving trance state.

🔊 Best experienced in total darkness, headphones on, volume at maximum.

Genres: Trance · Deep Techno · Hypnotic Trance · Minimal Techno · Dark Techno · Industrial Techno · Electro-Industrial · EBM · Experimental Techno

#MachineRitual #IronAscension #Apotheosis #IndustrialTechno #HypnoticTrance #MinimalTechno #DarkPulse #EBM #TechnoWithoutPermission #ÆtherfluxRecords

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One of the current techno scene’s ‘hidden treasures’, Bristol based A Sagittariun has discretely released a wide breadth of music over the last five years for labels like Secretsundaze, Hypercolour and his own Elastic Dreams label. Two highly acclaimed albums in “Dream Ritual” and “Elasticity” as well as fifteen EPs have appealed to those who like their techno without frontiers, taking in blistering 140BPM techno, breakbeat IDM and ambient dub with ease. His second release for Hypercolour displays signs of crossover appeal at long last…

Lead track “Vanishing Point” has already been receiving early plays from the likes of Laurent Garnier (dropping it in his recent Timewarp Germany set), Spencer Parker and Len Faki. Big pumping beats and spiralling FX fall aside to a lone breakbeat that ushers in one pretty special breakdown section. The childlike keys and fathoms deep synth stabs (straight out of the John Carpenter school of fathoms deep synth stabs) have already drawn comparisons to the retro 80s vibes to be heard on the American sci-fi horror series Stranger Things. It’s a breakdown that takes the listener to an uncharted dimension, bookended by slammin’ beats that acts as a perfect mood changer in any set. Watch this one soar!

“The Pathway” keeps things on an all together straighter tip; an incessant tribal loop weaves and filters around a thunderous kick and shuffling hats, ebbing and flowing all the way in what might be A Sagittariun’s most club-centric and stripped back production yet. Matrixxman (Dekmantel/Spectral Sound) is on hold to deliver a superb remix; pushing the original down a long dark tunnel for a growling and reverberating techno overhaul. Splendid stuff from the San Francisco based DJ/producer who is making serious waves on the scene after his landmark 2015 album ‘Homesick’ for Ghostly International.

Vanishing Point

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A Sagittariun - The Pathway (Matrixxman Remix) (HYPE063) (EXCLUSIVE STREAM)

Having initially released a pair of collaborative white labels featuring Lucy and Alex.Do over the last couple of years, Rødhåd’s imprint WSNWG notches up the pace with a vengeance in lieu of third instalment, foreshadowing another trio of joint EPs to be released throughout 2020 and including co-ops with Ø [Phase] (June), Daniel Avery (September) and Rene Wise (November). 

This also comes with the opening of a new chapter in Rødhåd’s career, as he will be starting to tour live in addition to his DJ sets, including dates at Berghain, Re-Textured Festival in London, Awakenings in Amsterdam; also joining forces with Sebastian Mullaert’s as part of his Circle Of Live project.

Borderless by essence, WSNWG’s aim is simple: showcase collaborations between Rødhåd and a variety of like-minded artists from various horizons, all recorded in the warm creative environment of his Berlin studio. ‘WSNWG003′ is the result of three sessions French techno stalwart Antigone and Rødhåd had in 2018 and 2019, with each of the tracks’ titles referring to the particular date it was made and recorded – understand ‘180702’ as 2nd of July 2018.

The journey starts off with the nostalgia-soaked, rolling punch of ‘180702.1’ – a number that justly epitomises both artists’ idiosyncrasies through a fine-tuned blender of near-classical emotional stir and gridlocked floor dynamics on a dubby tip. Delving further deep into post-industrial murk, its ‘.2’ counterpart casts a spell of veiled menace upon dancers and ravers through clanky assemblies of rattling drums, mirroring signals and brooding droney flights.
Flip it over and here’s ‘190709’ shifting the focus to breaks-heavy traction in powerful fashion. Riddled with mangled pep-talk samples, raucous machine howling and stuttering junglisms, the track spins in and out of orbit to entice the listener into a much physically demanding workout. Last but not least, no-nonsense floor-shredder ‘190904’ treats us to a brain-melting trip of fast-rotation synth loops, bleepy subs and fevered hi-hats that shall fit just right in the middle of any climactic buildup worthy of the name.

Len Faki & Roman Poncet - Asua SNIPPET

Len Faki - Official