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A2. Svreca - Nida (Evigt Mörker Remix)

mule musiq 256
2lp&digital
distributed by kompakt

luciano/luci neu house preview

Clarity/Overlook

UVB76-016

A1. Clarity - Torsion
A2. Clarity - Stateless
AA1. Clarity - Taking Effect
AA2. Overlook – All of Them Witches (Clarity Remix)

Release Date: 12th June 2020

Clarity’s first solo release on UVB-76 Music arrives in the form of a highly polished, firm footed quartet. Four grounded, heavyweight churners that sit proudly at the core of relevant Drum & Bass: Torsion, Stateless and Taking Effect.Across the three original compositions Clarity commands the frequencies of the contemporary breakbeat form. Completing the circle is Clarity’s remix of label mate Overlook’s All of Them Witches, an interpretive reimaging of an already bona-fide modern classic; poise, precision and execution.

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UVB76-016 : Clarity EP

Artist: Ismistik
Title: Bonus Bouncers EP
Label: Emotions Electric
Cat No: EE0005
Format: 12” Vinyl

Tracklist: 
A1 Miditrip 	
A2 Slight Interrupt 	
B1 Feel The Drumbox (Bounce!!) 	
B2 Xylophobia

Essential 1991 Techno masterpiece! Remastered and beatifully reissued by Emotions Electric. Originally released on Djax-Up-Beats.

Ismistik - Bonus Bouncers EP (EE0005)

Artist: Forgemasters
Title: Skies Over Sheffield EP (Incl. Luca Lozano, John Shima and 96 Back Remixes)
Label: Seven Hills
Cat No: SHR000
Format: 12” Vinyl

Tracklist: 
A1. Skies Over Sheffield (1990)
A2. Skies Over Sheffield (Luca Lozano’s Sunshine on Sharrow Mix)
B1. Skies Over Sheffield (96 Back Eccy Beach Heatwave Mix)
B2. Skies Over Sheffield (John Shima’s Rainclouds over Renishaw Mix)

Our next Seven Hills release Skies Over Sheffield returns the label to its Yorkshire roots. God’s own county yields this long-lost gem of a track courtesy of Sheffield legends and Bleep pioneers Forgemasters, with three new, home-grown remixes from John Shima, Luca Lozano and 96 Back to complement. 

The Forgemasters trio: Winston Hazel, Sean Maher and Rob Gordon first gained acclaim with their now iconic, Track with No Name and hold prestige as the first to ever release on Warp Records (WAP1). Skies Over Sheffield however, has been waiting in the wings ever since its conception back in the early 90s; for nearly two decades the sun had stayed set over the track which lay nestled in an old recording of Winston Hazel’s Sheffield Community Radio from 1992. So we’re very proud to announce the long awaited dawn break of Skies Over Sheffield on Seven Hills Records.

The provenance of this record has always been close to our hearts here at Seven Hills; accordingly, we wanted to have a concept for the remixes that kept close ties to the Sheffield music scene. As such, we have two tracks from born and bred producers - John Shima and 96 Back - alongside one from longterm resident and honorary ‘Sheffielder’ Luca Lozano. 

Music fathoms the sky!

Forgemasters - Skies Over Sheffield EP (Incl. Luca Lozano, John Shima and 96 Back Remixes) (SHR000)

RAWAX welcomes John Shima to the Family! 
His outstanding debut for us will be out 14.02.2022
Highly recommended!


Artists: John Shima
Title: Parallels EP
Label: RAWAX
Genre: Techno
Format: 12"
Cat: RAWAX028
Release date: 14.02.2022
Tracklisting:
A1. John Shima - Priorities
A2. John Shima - Parallels
B1. John Shima - Cartridge
B2. John Shima - Cause

Worldwide exclusive distributed by www.dbh-music.com; info@dbh-music.com

RAWAX028 - John Shima - Parallels EP (RAWAX)

Artist: @london-modular-alliance
Title: Stray EP
Label: Cultivated Electronics Ltd
Catalogue No: CELTD04
Format: Vinyl
Released: 1 February 2021

Track Listing:
A1. Stray
A2. Bitter Taste
B1. More Than a Number
B2. More Than a Number (Sync 24 Remix)

London Modular Alliance make their CE debut with the ‘Stray EP’ for Cultivated Electronics Ltd (CE’s vinyl-only sister label) in February.

London Modular Alliance is a collective that lies somewhere between a shop and a cult.  From their base in the former industrial warehouses of Hackney Wick, London Modular have been designing their own cases, working out practical ways of chaining multiple synths for live performance, selling units from their shop front, and taking themselves on the road to run workshops and gigs.  From the lazer-lit confines of sweaty clubs to the hushed environs of Tate Britain and the V&A, they fill spaces with the whoosh and sweep of man co-operating with machine, bringing the dynamics of dance music to the ideals of modular synthesis, and forcing anyone with ears to acknowledge the potency of the format once more.  With them, the sound of the future has returned.

The EP includes three intricately crafted modular Electro tracks from LMA, featuring soaring melodies and dappled beats that manage to extract depth and soul out of machines, alongside a punchy remix by Sync 24 that delivers a tough metallic groove to close the release.

Pre-order through Clone: 
Or CE’s Bandcamp page: https://cultivatedelectronics.bandcamp.com

Stray

CE LTD 004 - London Modular Alliance - Stray EP

Artist: Morphology
Title: The Dark Wheel EP
Label: Cultivated Electronics
Catalogue No: CE038
Format: Vinyl / Digital Download / Streaming 
Released: 21st April 2021

Track Listing:
A1. Sorace
A2. Teogre
B1. Quidra
B2. Orrere

Morphology return to Cultivated Electronics with the follow up to their 2017 EP ‘Mind Stealers’ (CE023).  ‘The Dark Wheel EP’, coming in March marks their fourth EP for Sync 24’s label.

Morphology are Finnish duo Michael Diekmann and Matti Turunen.  Formed in 2009 they have already clocked up a series of EPs and four albums across labels including Solar One Music, CPU, FireScope, Zyntax Motorcity, Semantica, and of course, Cultivated Electronics.

Fans of Morphology will already know how they fuse early electro sounds with haunting melodies to create a deep blend of atmospheric future funk, and their new EP ‘The Dark Wheel’ is no exception, as they deliver four tracks of faultless production technique, warm synths and crisp drum-work.  Essential Electro.

Pre-order via Clone:

CE038 - Morphology - The Dark Wheel

In one sense Central Processing Unit is familiar territory for London Modular Alliance - group members Pip Williams (Phil Ventre) and Koova (Gavin Pkyerman) have both dropped EPs through the Sheffield label in the past, the former offering outer-space street-soul on 2017's Outer Limits after Koova had channelled Drexciya for 2015's This Is Not My Future. However, the Cracked Dice EP represents the first time that the trio have come through on CPU in full force, with Simon Lynch completing the lineup alongside Koova and Williams here. Cracked Dice finds them on top form, blending broken-beat machine-funk grooves with latent house and rave tendencies to thrilling effect.

Cracked Dice is ushered in by the weightless atmospherics of its title-track. The combination of synth washes and gurgling electronics here sounds so alien that it could pass for a piece of incidental music from 'The X-Files', but things don't stay that way for long - the track soon snaps into a stargazing club joint in the Detroit mode, one in which spaceship synth wobbles are pushed onwards by lithe, rumbling sub-bass. The combo comes off like an interstellar throwdown between the Midwestern masters of old and modern practitioners of UK soundsystem techno stylings - Lurka, Batu and the like. Following number 'Head Of The Keeper' maintains the energy of its predecessor, warping junglist archetypes around a breakbeat stomp in a manner reminiscent of Special Request.

London Modular Alliance's brand of electro has always been marked out by its playfulness, a feature derived from how snappy drum and synth programming anchor the group's off-the-cuff improvisation. That sensibility is apparent throughout the entirety of this EP, but perhaps nowhere more so than on first B-side cut 'Chemical Peel'. 'Chemical Peel' is at once stiff-necked and rubbery, the hissing hats and old-skool breaks phasing in and out of a boinging bassline which is pure Mr. Fingers goodness. That machine-funk scuttle carries through to closing track 'Lemon Mishap', a piece of insectoid acid-funk so gnarly it will have the crowd convinced that they're hearing the DJ receive an alien transmission in real time.

Cracked Dice sees esteemed electro dons London Modular Alliance whip up machine-funk, junglism and Midwestern house/techno into a quartet of club tools which are as sleek and futuristic as a lazerbeam.

FFO: Baby T, Batu, Jensen Interceptor, Mr. Fingers, Special Request

London Modular Alliance - Cracked Dice

Conforce signs ‘Wavetable’ to Sungate - an energetic and diverse four-track EP produced using mostly wavetable synthesizers. These chord-driven tracks showcase a sophisticated danceable approach with proper groove. Rotterdam techno in its purest form.
@conforce

A1. Conforce - Kawai
A2. Conforce - Wave Trip
B1. Conforce - Blofeld
B2. Conforce - Richocet

Release Date: 19.03.2021

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