https://atomnationrec.lnk.to/unfoldvol2

After the success of the first edition in 2016, we decided to make Unfold and ongoing Various Artists compilation series. The second volume is another carefully curated mix of new label signings and more established names. The nine stylish tracks cover lush deepness, silky synths and hooky melodies that provide a real listening experience, no matter the context.

The first volume of Unfold featured the likes of Applescal's 'Harmony Two,' which became a big hit with DJs and has since influenced the more club-focused sound of the label. As such, the music on this collection has one foot on the dance floor, but comes with richly layered arrangements and proper songwriting that works just as well at home, in headphones, or anywhere else. Whether driving and late-night or more sun-kissed and airy, the sounds of Unfold are all indicative of the wider output on Atomnation. It is a label that deals in music for dancing, but also thinking and feeling.

The new artists here include NOCUI with his lush piano house, Awe Kid's gurgling grooves and heavenly melodies and Argia's clean, trance-inducing sounds. Label boss Applescal's 'Annie' is an uplifting synth jam with his partner, while Sky Civilian's 'Calle Electra' is a catchy piece of clean avant-pop. Both Milio and boys be kko bring star-gazing gems taken from their upcoming albums on this label. The rolling depths of new artists Lex Ludlow and Blomfelt & Narby bring this collection of sounds way beyond the dance floor - Unfold is packed with fresh new music and grooves laden with spine-tingling emotion.

Milio & Mulo - Marble

Videoclip

Milio - Nachtzon

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

Earlier this year, Los Angeles based John Tejada released "Year Of The Living Dead”. Recorded during the monumental uncertainty of 2020, this full length brought out a blissful extended moment of balance between the new and the familiar in his music. Now, Tejada invites some of his favourite producers to reinterpret tracks from the album – the legendary Warp duo Plaid set their signature style to “Abbot Of Burton, whereas Jimmy Tamborello’s Dntel project combines layers of blissful moments from “Echos Of Life” to the timbre of a flute. Lawrence is one of Kompakt’s most beloved, kindred spirits and he turns “Panacea” into a gorgeously soulful house crooner perfect for the late hours that go on and beyond. John Tejada takes a turn readapting his own album highlight “Sheltered” into a club ready mix.

John Tejada - Panacea (Lawrence Remix)

Life At Robert Johnson is a natural home for Superpitcher, and this two-tracker shows his sense of belonging.

Lush Life featuring vocals by Fantastic Twins was inspired by Corsican polyphony, an epiphany after a church concert though as ever with Superpitcher, simplicity is multi-layered: the track itself could be a trip back to the golden (rave) days of deep electronic US house à la François K, dubby yet peacefully driving the ecstasy home. No religious gospel euphoria though, the lyrics are a pagan hymn to Eventide presets. You can’t take the geek out of the schatzi.

Diario stretches its 10 minutes in a misleading laidback groove: Sueno Latino languid clichés are blown away by a smoothly unforgiving acid line. This is a trip, not a journey, a trip dedicated to the young raver in all of us and to a friend too soon departed. As Pasolini said in the poem of the same name: “That’s why I've never abandoned happiness, that’s why in the anxiety of my sins I’ve never been touched by real remorse. Equal, always equal, to the inexpressible at the very source of what I am”

In loving memory of Georges “Sugar” Chaulet.

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Canadian artist Gab Rhome has come a long way since breaking onto the scene in 2013 with a release on Guy Gerber’s Supplemental Facts label. Delivering his trademark sound for The Gardens of Babylon, he now provides 2 original cuts for the Dutch label. On remix duties we've Francesca Lombardo, Baham and Sorä.

Buy: https://lnk.to/GabRhomeMadeTheBed

https://soundcloud.com/francesca-lombardo
https://soundcloud.com/gabrhome
https://soundcloud.com/thegardensofbabylon

I've Made The Bed For You

Premiere: Gab Rhome - I've Made The Bed For You (Francesca Lombardo Remix) [Gardens Of Babylon]

Live At Robert Johnson proudly presents the new »Holographic Witness« EP by Niall Mannion aka Mano le Tough!

Please enjoy four very special tracks made by experienced Irishman Mannion near beautiful Lake Zurich. Four tracks to jump into like Zurich folks jump into the Limmat to get carried away. Now here's YOUR chance to get carried away too!

Let's start with the hypnotic grooves of »Holographic Witness« with its subtle handclaps and percussions turning this bass-line driven monster to further heights - a bass-line quite reminiscent of that special Miami sound made famous by the Murk guys back in the early 90ies. Add some balearic guitar riffings and wait until that mighty bass drum comes back in after 6 minutes and you'll find yourself dreaming on a dancefloor in heaven.

Niall continues with more pounding drum sounds in next tune »Kakooja«. Stabbing synths sounds dominate this track while Niall manages to create another dreamy vibe again for this monotonous (in a very positive way that is) work of art - a dreamy vibe which can be found on any of Niall's EP's tracks. This leads us directly to »Last Floating Figh, Liufe Floating« where Mr. Mannion floats into much quieter shores. It's a very meditative affair which makes you want to listen to it over and over again once the tune comes to an end. We think that Señor Villalobos might unleash this one very soon onto some European dancefloor … don't you think?

On »Weather Master«, this EP's last track, Niall masters the art of trippy sounds for a fourth time building another dreamy hypnotic groove that is just beautiful. Maybe too beautiful for this world … we don't know, but what do we know? We're fans. Fans of Mano Le Tough who does not seem so tough at all considering his first offering for Live At Robert Johnson.

Maybe you should consider becoming a fan too - in case you aren't already …

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

With The Tiger, Matias Aguayo returns to Kompakt with his first EP for the label since 2014’s Legende. Since then, he’s been busy with all manner of experiments and explorations – a monthly radio show on Worldwide FM, 2019’s Support Alien Invasion; the essential El Rudo Del House series; an album on Crammed Discs with his group The Desdemonas; collaborations with Sano and Gladkazuka (as Rionegro), DJ Spoko, Mujaji, Julianna, a new trio with DJs Pareja, named MDM Factory, and the latest offering on his Cómeme imprint, El Cameron featuring Ricardo Villalobos. But something special happens when Aguayo returns to the mothership, as though he’s reconnecting with something essential: “pop melancholy is just right there,” he says.

On The Tiger, Aguayo is in touch with the core of the flame, the music that’s at the centre of his being. While most of the music may have originated “in the foggy Mexican forest,” he’s sure that the EP is “still a Cologne record,” something you can hear as soon as the prowling bass, shuffling rhythms and ghostly voices of the title track lope stealthily into earshot. The titular character is caught up in the sensuous tangle of the night, that space between dusk’s delirium and dawn’s dreaming. Aguayo sings, “Do you see the same I see? Are we having the same dream?” – here, he’s picturing an after-hours revelation, “on a warm muggy night with all sorts of background noise from various nightwalking animals – but at the same time, I was a city dweller stranded in the jungle, who still dressed like he was about to go to the disco.”

The ascending, ever-circling bass of “Nightshift, The Red” tells another story, a spiralling mantra that’s hypnotically psychedelic, yet elegant, refined, filled with sonic textures you can almost reach out and touch, like knotted twists of exotic fabric. “The lyrics are very associative and somewhere between urban and jungle nightlife,” Aguayo mentions, “fireflies shine, but also the reflections of the disco ball.” “Show Me What You’re Feeling” takes us back to the 1990s, with Aguayo re-working some vocal and lyrical fragments from three decades ago, its beautiful uncertainty remarkable in what Aguayo calls its “extremely emotional openness”. Dappled with melancholy, it’s a lover’s hymn to intimacy and vulnerability.

Aguayo signs off The Tiger with “El Propio Propio”, a celebratory ending to an EP that’s rich and complex, full of lovely musical moments – the tender melodies woven through “Show Me What You’re Feeling”; the warping, pliable, plastic textures that Aguayo crumples and crinkles through “El Propio Propio”. Like much of Aguayo’s music, The Tiger highlights the senses, to advance a new sensibility, one that inhabits a fever-dream of hints and clues, a mystery that’s solved by the deep, dark sensuality of the rhythms here, fully in love with the nightlife. It finds its exoticism in unexpected moments, sideways glances, surprising twists and turns. After all, as Aguayo says, “moths are far more glamorous and mysterious than butterflies.”

The Tiger EP

Nightshift, The Red

Jozef K debuts on Maeve 26 with his Loved and Lost EP. This 5-tracker touches on rave, breaks and straight dancefloor fire, complemented with a killer remix from our boy Kev Sheridan.

Loved and Lost

Tekno Signature (noxpox open collab)

Tekno Signature (noxpox Open Collab)

Releases Infos:
Nat Barrera & Swa Swally - Souk Zrabi (Swa Swally Version)
artists : @nat-barrera & @swa-swally
Label: @cosmovisionrecords
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We're thrilled to announce the release of Souk Zrabi, a new collaborative EP from Nat Barrera and Swa Swally. The title track draws inspiration from the vibrant, bustling open markets of North Africa—the labyrinthine souks teeming with life, color, and rhythm. The song combines Nat's melodic creativity with Swa Swally's rich percussion and beautiful vocals, capturing the essence of the market's energy.

The EP also includes two electrifying remixes: Gabi Raiz brings a dancefloor-ready, slightly trippy vibe, while Mula delivers a psychedelic bass-driven indie dance remix made for the club. Swa Swally adds his own minimalistic interpretation, highlighting organic percussion and raw, hypnotic rhythms. Souk Zrabi fuses traditional and contemporary sounds to create a truly unique listening experience.

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✪ Follow Nat Barrera:
☛ Soundcloud:  @nat-barrera
☛ Facebook: facebook.com/natbarreramusic
☛ Instagram: instagram.com/nat.barrera
☛ Spotify: is.gd/lCu9VZ

✪ Follow Swa Swally:
☛ Soundcloud:  @swa-swally
☛ Spotify: is.gd/7sjCXj

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Nat Barrera & Swa Swally - Souk Zrabi (Swa Swally Version)

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As the name states Live at Robert Johnson is the associated label of the respected venue in Offenbach and incorporates what the club stands for. The imprint has been establishing a solid ground for the new Frankfurt sound since 2009. By featuring internationally acclaimed artists LARJ has been providing DJs and audiences with essential tunes in an extensive range of high-quality house music. Laid-back dance-floor awareness with a sense for particularity in sound is what might describe best most of the releases and artists.

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