Nostalgia is defined as “a sentimental longing or wistful affection for a period or place in the past, typically with happy personal associations”, this is exactly what Fen Doi's self-titled debut EP offers through its four themes: A generous portion of nostalgia triggered by the absurd amount of 80s’ Synthwave-and-Retrowave-inspired vibes spread all over the release.

Fen Doi is Neil Lauper, a Zurich-based producer and drummer devoted to exploring different shades of music. His approach to producing is shaped by his natural feel for rhythm and groove with a special fascination for somewhat pop-oriented melodies and the raw emotions they can trigger. In “Fen Doi” EP, you will have contact with all his music background and history translated into four interesting and well-crafted originals. 

“Your Universe”, the track we were solicited to premiere, is a catchy and emotional retro-as-hell heater with emotional lyrics – that starts with a very considerate verse: “I want to know how you feel” – followed by a beautiful and melodic arpeggiated synth layer. The trippy pads and leads are also highlights worth to be mentioned. Great independent release here, peeps!

You can find (and buy) this and other music pearls on the Bandcamp page of the artist: https://fendoi.bandcamp.com/music

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PREMIERE197 // Fen Doi - Your Universe

Working the fields of Italo disco, rave, and house, TURNLAND co-chief FELICE delivers the goods with a smashing tune entitled "INFINITE SUBURBIA" which indeed can easily be tagged with the "Italo" moniker - a very modern and up to date, state of the art italo take that is. The tune is a stomping tour de force (or more likely a Giro d'Italia …) with razor-sharp piano stabs and DJ CITY sweetening the former instrumental track by adding marvelous icy cold yet laid-back vocals - a collaboration which came into being during the 2020 Covid summer. Of course, we put the instrumental on the EP as well - for those of you who want to sing yourself …

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B2 - Felice - Infinite Suburbia (Lauer Remix) - Snippet

Benjamin Fröhlich's four-track EP "Club Fantasy" was our first release this year - now it gets the full "remixed-by-four" treatment it deserves.

First one up is the currently New York based German DJ and musician Annegret Fiedler aka Perel with her take on "Escape". She adds a bit of a "bite" to the warm, emotional, and cinematic Italo soundscape of Benjamin's original version thus creating an even more hypnotic tune with a cutting edge.

Berlin based DJ and producer Alex Kassian puts his hands on the title track "Club Fantasy" by slightly increasing the tempo and adding some great percussion elements, yet reducing the typical 303 elements a tiny little bit - a total winner on every dancefloor. 

DJ City's remix of the same track is also faster than the original and much more on a stomping ground - he takes no prisoners - it's a straight into-your-face affair with a mighty mighty bass drum.

Last but not least Peter Invasion and Gregor Habicht sprinkle their magic dust on "Escape". Their version is even more dreamy than Benjamin's original version. It's sheer beauty and deserves to be played in the early morning hours of every club night - as long as we all get the chance to re-experience those sacred moments again of course … 

Finally we've got all the radio DJs and stations and streaming platforms covered with Perel's "Spotify" edit - say no more - 100% efficacy.

Now it's your turn to discover "The Remixed Sound Of Munich" - have fun exploring it!

Benjamin Fröhlich - Escape (Perel Remix) - Snippet

Exclusive: DC Salas - The Weight Of Uncertainty (I:Cube Remix)

With EPs on Correspondant, Live At Robert Johnson or his own label Biologic Records, DC Salas has built up quite an impressive back-catalogue over the past two years and the Brussel-based artist does not seem to slow down. His latest four tracker, The Weight Of Uncertainty, will be released on long-standing British label Futureboogie and keeps up the prosperous path. Provided with three original tracks the EP also comes with a remix from legendary French producer Nicolas Chaix better known under his artist moniker I:Cube or as part versatile producer duo Château Flight, for the title track. Legenary because I:Cube has been responsible for one of the electronic music scene's most important tracks, namly Disco Cubism, and remixed Daft Punk's Around the World. Furthermore, the Parisian has worked with iconic artists such as Joakim, Prins Thomas, Tornado Wallace, Vermont – just to name a few – over his more than two decades lasting career and to pinpoint it: I:Cube has dedicated himself and his passion to music, and the latter has found a source to trigger emotions through his work. For his rework of DC Salas' The Weight Of Uncertainty Nicolas kept the bleepy chords from the original version but puts them into a different sound-surrounding as the pads that accompany the original elements create a rather ambient vibe.. However, if one expected an ambient track is proven wrong because the I:Cube remix is still dancefloor-oriented as it unfolds its hypnotical-touch with a repetitive vocal that seems to echo in the foggy-pads and lure the dancers and listeners at the same time into the track's, into I:Cube's cosmos.

DC Salas' EP The Weight Of Uncertainty will be released on Futureboogie on August 20th, 2021.

Buy here: https://futureboogie-recordings.bandcamp.com/album/the-weight-of-uncertainty-ep

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DC Salas: https://facebook.com/dcsalasmusic // @dc-salas // https://instagram.com/dcsalas
I:Cube: https://facebook.com/icubeonerock // @i-cube // 
Futureboogie: https://facebook.com/futureboogierecordings // @futureboogie // https://instagram.com/futureboogierecordings

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The Weight Of Uncertainty EP

The Weight Of Uncertainty (I:Cube Remix)

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EXCLUSIVE: DC Salas - The Weight Of Uncertainty (I:Cube Remix) [Futureboogie]

Intercept is set to release Ineffekt's 10-track debut album, tiled 'Kora'. Following his EP 'Solaris' (2020) on Intercept, the 19-year-old producer offers an extensive look into his diverse and vibrant set of sounds. Clocking in around 40 minutes in total, Ineffekt cleverly positions himself between the club world, and the pop hemisphere across 10 beautifully composed tracks. Hear standout track 'Cascades' in full below

Buy: https://intercept.bandcamp.com/album/kora

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Premiere: Ineffekt - Cascades [Intercept]

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Luis Leon - My Ears Have Tears
BUY-LINK: https://www.beatport.com/release/my-ears-have-tears/3500214
Label: Nie Wieder Schlafen
Release Date: 10 october 2021

With over 2 years in the making, the debut of Luis Leon on Nie Wieder Schlafen feels like a long overdue salvation. The highly explorative mind of Luis (Chapter 24, Kindisch, L'enfant terrible, Prosa Verso) has always fascinated us - and while the right moment has taken it's time, his sound was always admired in some shape and form. At last, we were finally able to capture his vision in our framework, which allowed his sound to prosper in new ways. With incredible patience and careful selection throughout the last years of communication, Luis Leon's debut comes with the name of "My Ears Have Tears". The expansive EP holds 5 tracks, including a non-stop adventure with 3 deep and unforgiving progressive stories, gently held together in between 2 ambience projects, the later of them in collaboration with new and returning NWS talent Haider Uppal.

From the main title track to the fast and rhythmic patterns of "It Won't Be Long", Luis captures an array of experimental grooves, which do not shy away from breaking boundaries and mixing various influences of his own. Filled with textures, vocal inputs and heavy dancefloor patterns, the release holds true to the sound of Nie Wieder Schlafen, while moving on to explore different sides of the atmospherical world of electronic music.

"My Ears Have Tears" strikes with a cinematic and pulsating bassline synth that sets an eerie tone for the production to move within. Transforming and almost liquid pads, filter through the mix and create broad soundscapes, that layer above the bassline, that is further supported by very wet shaker patterns and muffled texture compositions.

The ideas of hypnotic base rhythms and long drifting sounds do extend to the next track called "Take the Gun". Wunderous vox-like pads open and close in a breathing-like sense, while a ruthless and quick bass/kick pattern fills out the low end space, to build some heavy momentum. Long-lasting, almost noisy spaces fill the tension within the groove, while the fading but long one note pads decay in the abyss with subtle but effective glides. It invokes a mysterious space that is explored with excitement.

The core dance tracks are finished up by a tempo-rising final production, which pulls the concept of the release through an ecstatic state and intensifies all described ideas to eleven. The ambiences supported by snappy hit patterns prepare the listener to buckle up for a quicker experience, that holds true to Luis' unforgiving rhythmic bombardment, that works so well in an ambience filled space. Almost goofy drum patterns put into such a quick state, are liquified through the countless atmospheres, which Luis layers on top of each other and seasons the whole production with textures and influences from his love of japanese anime. While the most experimental track of them all, we believe "It Won't Be Long (To Dance With You)" shows the most of Luis' character and what he is inspired by. The main titles of the track are blessed by the release introducing "Understanding of Re" and the EP conclusion "Des Magiciens" (in collaboration with Haider Uppal), which both play a huge role in setting the framework of this whole extended play. The experience of going through the whole release does alter the experience of all these tracks, especially opening up the listeners for the final track, that might bring so much more joy, when understood in its full concept.

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PREMIERE : Luis Leon - It Won't Be Long (Just To Dance With You)

After the launch of the original Azole's "Mr. Sutherland EP" in February, WWW is back with the much-anticipated remix pack.
Retaining the label's staple remixers Romain Fx and Black Feeling, WWW is introducing 2 well-seasoned producers to the roster.
Both Endrik Schroeder and Ivan Fabra are not new names in the game and both have a string of very well-received releases under the belt of proper labels. 

Both Endrik and Ivan are delivering their own signature sound and we're sure that their skillful work on the original tracks will transport you to outer space.

PREMIERE : Azole - Tensioner (Ivan Fabra 'Cosmic Acid' Remix)

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Italian dj/producer Gianmarco Staccone pairs two lush deep house bangers, Caminando and My Name, on this single. Part of Play Records' Summer Sessions 2025, Vol. 2 collection.

Hear more Gianmarco Staccone DJ at https://soundcloud.com/gianmarco_staccone_dj

Close out your Summer with this astounding collection of house, tech house, deep house, and progressive house bangers.

Summer Sessions 2025, Volume 2, features 16 new works from ACRAFT (Germany), Ash Brimelow (UK), Barros (Portugal), Beatmechanic (Canada), Blord (US), Eoghan Schlindwein (Northern Ireland), Ezequiel G (Argentina) & Hector Moralez (USA), Francesco Ferraro (Italy), Gianmarco Staccone DJ (Italy), Jayson Miro (St. Maarten), Maik D (Italy), Munro Blue (Canada), Not Yurs (USA), and Tim Gläser (Germany).

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Summer Sessions 2025, Vol. 2

My Name (Radio Edit)

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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.