"It is like a voyage of discovery into unknown lands, seeking not for new territory but for new knowledge. It should appeal to those with a good sense of adventure."  — Frederick Sanger

Dazion
Soundcloud: https://soundcloud.com/thedazion
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/thedazion/
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/dazion__/

Electric Shapes
Soundcloud: https://soundcloud.com/electric_shapes
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/EleShapes
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/electric.shapes/

Unreleased Territory vol. 4

PREMIERE: Dazion - Alpine Action (Electric Shapes)

Artist: https://soundcloud.com/blackbonesreims
Track: B.E.E.F
Label: https://soundcloud.com/duca-bianco
Format: 12" Vinyl, Digital EP
YouTube: https://youtu.be/lvx7wT3wgNA

Duca meets Black Bones. Compagni who deliver la migliore edits and now make the meraviglioso percussives for Touch Sensitive and Hoga Nord labels.
Deutsch post punk kicks, kicks, kicks off the jams mother sucker.
Chicago jack house, twists, melts, bends and is remade.
Flip flip flop, Library fun, looped, funky, teutonic, bella bella.
AOR wonder pop, smiles, strums, croons and finire.
Bingo Bongo Black Bones !!

PREMIERE | Black Bones - B.E.E.F [Duca Bianco] 2023

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Artist: https://soundcloud.com/shedbug
Track: A Lil Piece
Label: https://soundcloud.com/jugaar-records
Format: Digital, 12" Vinyl,  VA
Release date: 01/03/23
YouTube: https://youtu.be/FCFTPQPLj-Q

Fresh from DOTT’s “Puppy Luv EP” and Rudoh’s “Vinland In Space EP”, Jugaar Records is back and this time with a full-length, double-pack vinyl, and digital compilation bringing together friends from Asia and Europe. The record is testament to the healthy place the Asian electronic music landscape finds itself in and those intrepid producers who are willing to explore new scenes and sounds.
It's energy-crew from the off - with UK beatmaker Joe Koshin’s “Astro Wax”, a techy electro work-out that conjures images of futuristic cityscapes and dense urban mazes. Up next, Pakistan-born and label co-boss Rudoh maintains the electro vibe with cut-up hip-hop vocals sprinkled on top of a pulsating bassline in his “KOF”. His records are being picked up by global tastemakers from Emerald to Roza Terenzi to DJ Masda. Don’t sleep!
Moving to the B-side, German-born, London mainstay Voigtmann shuffles and deals a steppy drum pattern and intricate synth-work, with a bassline drenched in that particular brand of funk to get the party going even at the most ungodly hour. Observatory resident Nic Ford closes this disk with an ambient excursion that summons spiritual rave voices from the deep laid atop a lilting synth loop. It’s typical of his ambient performances which have gained much notoriety in Vietnam of late.
Opening the second record is Egyptian gem Hassan Abou Alam whose recent outings on Naïve and Banoffee Pies have gained him much and well-deserved attention. Here, his “Gloom” combines twinkling IDM modes with heavy sub-bass experiments primed to stop the most idiosyncratic dancefloors in their tracks.
Up on C2, the Version, 3024 and Phonica Records graduate Yak adds breaks to the equation. His “Disk Full” brings together a haunting gated synth and razor-sharp beat programming to devastating effect. Melbourne based, Salt Mines Records honcho Shedbug concludes this side with his hopeful “A Lil Piece” whose soaring synth line will hit all the right emotional chords at all the right times.
On the final side Bangkokian Chalo reminds us why he is one of the masters of this increasingly fully formed scene. His Depth Charge is a muggy dub-laden, electro jam capable of rattling the weightiest sound systems in some of the most twisted raves at the end of some of the darkest Sois.
The record is completed by New Delhi linchpin and Boxout.fm resident Monophonik, whose techno/electro “Tumbi” journeys out of the night into a euphoric sunrise moment that will be setting the dancefloors.

PREMIERE | Shedbug - A Lil Piece [Jugaar Records] 2023

Artist: HAN, https://soundcloud.com/weedchangedthespelling
Track: Floating 
Label: https://soundcloud.com/mysticisms
Format: Vinyl 12", Digital EP
Release date: TBA
YouTube: https://youtu.be/r1T5R-p9si8

Mysticisms continues its global journey with an EP of previously unreleased ethereal House meets IDM by Romania’s HAN aka Dan Handrabur, taken from his early studio recordings, 1991-95.
Born in Bucharest, Handrabur’s music talents began with violin and classical training, leading to a scholarship at the Conservatoire de Geneve at just 16. An even earlier fascination with tapes machines and manipulation, furthered from listening to Radio Free Europe, led to seeking more experimental and contemporary sounds, obtaining a Korg Polisix, Roland TR606 Beat Box and TEAC deck while still in his teens.
Soon hanging around record stores, meeting DJs and securing a residency at Geneva’s landmark, Club 58, he dropped out of studies to pursue the dream of producing. After links were made and a relocation to Vancouver, Canada, his first release – as ‘X Drone’ with Adham Shaikh – in ‘93, led Handrabur to become an integral part of the City’s electronic scene, with dozens of collaborations and releases across a myriad of respected labels, from Harthouse, Exist Dance, Eye Q Records and many more, plus a notably, close relationship with the legendary Phil Western.
The sole HAN release appeared on Interchill Records in ‘98, going on to be a collector’s item that saw a recent, timely repress. The music on “Reflections” comes from the similar space, a timeframe that combines a mastery of Ambient and House textures.
Opening with Floating, featuring the vocals of partner Cristina, captures the essence perfectly. Ethereal and uplifting, with the well placed optimism of the period as this new music movement was mutating. Echoes of the UK post-rave sound is evident, a pulsing 303 and piano counter, a gentle melodic adventure over tight breakbeats.
The title track is a deeper, darker affair, closer to Handrabur and Western’s seminal ’93 ‘Frequencies From The Edge Of The Tektonic Plate’ album, as well a nod to The Drum Club and the post-British Prog House sound.
The B side takes on the “Ambient House” lost genre with the swirling oscillations and beats of Phantasme, a companion to fellow travelers, Pilgirms Of The Mind’s “Subtropique”, before Give In And Resist channels floating arpeggios and vocal samples, a la Irresistible Force,’s “Rising High”; closing another chapter of Handrabur’s archival releases that continue to captivate DJs and collectors ears in equal abandon.
Reflect the Mystery

PREMIERE | HAN - Floating [Mysticisms] 2023

https://soundcloud.com/unos
https://soundcloud.com/darkerthanwax
🛒 https://unossound.bandcamp.com/album/boodle-fight
🔊 https://youtu.be/DyLCTiMSTa4

UNOS, a Belgian artist with roots in the Philippines, has long been a part of the Darker Than Wax family, repping the label in Europe and beyond for a number of years through her parties and DJ sets. As she begins to put her unique productions out into the world, we are pleased to give her first release a home on the label.

Borrowing its title from the exuberant Filipino dining tradition - a communal, bare-handed feast among friends and families - UNOS' debut EP Boodle Fight highlights her sincere love for communities forged through club culture. The release was conceptualised during her first Asia tour through Singapore, Bangkok, and Manila in 2019, where the artist became acutely aware of the crucial role that community plays in sustaining a culture. Shortly after these foundational travels, the pandemic threatened the lifeblood of this culture, prompting her to draw on her feelings from the tour to maintain hope. With the release of the EP, UNOS revels in the return of togetherness to club culture after the pandemic - just like a musical boodle fight.

Boodle Fight ties together this celebration of community with a number of other influences and experiences in the artist’s life. First single ‘Angermanagement’ is a ballroom-inspired roller, focusing on contemporary voguing culture’s ability to translate anger into queer empowerment. ‘Powerslide’ is a piano-driven house cut that attempts to capture the energy of a legendary Darker Than Wax block party in Singapore in 2019, while the frenetic pace of ‘Headlock’ evokes imagery of a crowded club scene that the artist sorely missed in 2020. True to the spirit of a Boodle Fight, the bright chords and bouncy rhythms on ‘Flavourtown’ imagine the best aspects of an inclusive space where diversity is celebrated like a buffet. Closing out the record, ‘Loveletter to Summer’ reflects on the tropical warmth of her roots in the Philippines. Boodle Fight manages to pack in quite a few themes and inspirations, while still maintaining a polished consistency from front to back, and announces UNOS as a producer to watch.

PREMIERE: Unos - Powerslide [Darker than Wax]

Constant sound rebel, vinyl enthusiast, dj, co-founder of  Partyzanai label and its sub-labels (PZ Records, Gars Records, Partyzanai Pop Records, Partyzanai Plius Records, PPP Records) and promoter since 1997. Cosmopolitan, traveler and digger throughout many electronic music trends, capitals, styles and beyond. Mantas T. dj sets reflect a wide spectrum of sound, as well as his love for obscure, hard-to-find records, which extends from obscure disco to modern techno. This reverberates in his Isla to Isla mix, recorded at Radio Vilnius.

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@partyzanai
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@gars-records
@partyzanai-pop
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@ppprecords

Mantas T - Isla to Isla #27

Mirror People - Unknown Movement EP
BUY LINK:  https://mirrorpeoplemusic.bandcamp.com/album/unknown-movement-ep
Label: Belong Records
https://soundcloud.com/mirrorpeople

Maia's music has come on quality labels like Permanent Vacation, Discotexas and Toy Tonics and he has remixed the likes of Hard Ton and Jesse Oliver to great effect. Each time he steps out he shows his multi-layered and versatile sound and does so again here with an EP that includes floor-ready tunes as well as an epic ambient opus. 

The opening track ‘Human’ was done in collaboration with London-based singer Michelle Bee who has worked with her own band The Rotary Fifth as well as Emperor Machine and a/jus/ted. Her spine-tingling vocals bring a heavenly feel to the deep rolling beats. Lush synth work layers in further cosmic energy and a warm bassline holds it all together. Then comes 'Sea of Possibilities', a lush electronic instrumental with a playful melodic bassline. Swirling pads expand the track into an infinite night sky with you at the centre, lost in a star-gazing reverie. 

Last of all is a 22-minute long piece of conceptual ambient electronic music called 'Comboios Amarelos', which means 'yellow trains'. It's an ever-shifting sonic landscape with meticulous synth craft front and centre. Implied rhythms introspective moods to more optimistic atmospheres.

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PREMIERE : Mirror People - Comboios Amarelos

Artist: https://soundcloud.com/freybenedikt
Track: Solver
Label: https://soundcloud.com/esp-institute
Format: 2x12" Vinyl, Digital, LP
YouTube: https://youtu.be/gEVzfEkXkbg

Close your eyes and merge into Benedikt Frey’s 'Fastlane'. Imagine sitting in the driver’s seat of a an automobile, one with exceptional horsepower and torque, as you stare out the windshield at the red light, warping in fata-morgana a mile down the road. It’s a straight-away, a black top with two lanes, and against your better judgment you decide to floor the gas. No hesitation in your muscle, your ankle or the ball of your foot, which you now realize is some kind of universal pivot, the first point of contact fusing your body with the will of machine. In this moment you’re in awe that you, a human, an animal, grew from pond scum into something so advanced as to engineer this thing, a mechanical beast capable of overwhelming power and exhilaration. But you also feel a seductive dread, an outside force diverting you from caution toward a dangling carrot of curiosity, asking yourself, ‘How far can I take this thing?’ The dread, now a constant, is numbed, equalized by an adverse intoxicating gratification. You feel both sensations in real time, however, rather than take responsibility for yourself, friends, family and innocent bystanders, you cement your foot to the floor and lean your head back. Noise around you fades to mute. Smell the benzene-scented air, feel the wind on your face, the menacing vibration of the vessel you control beneath you and every grain of asphalt under its tires. This mile has now lasted an eternity and you’ve left your body for some objective view, as if watching climax of a film. Past the point of no return, you embrace abandon and lean into fate. The film becomes slow motion, a crawling pace so mesmerizing you convince yourself of an option to eject yourself from this madness, but as you finally let go of your last morsel of fear, you run the red light head-on into the nucleus of a fantastic glistening sculpture of torn metal, glass, oil, broken dreams and heartache. 'Fastlane' may be just drum machines and synthesizers if you’re timid, but listen harder and know the catastrophic reality of existence, a wreckage so gruesome we dare not rubberneck, but afterall it is our nature to stare.

PREMIERE | Benedikt Frey - Solver [ESP Institute] 2023

BUY LINK: https://www.beatport.com/release/pix/4203504
Release date: August 11, 2023

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Nelson D debuts on Diversall Music with his single "PIX"  A psychedelic and enveloping House Music, full of dreamlike and daring moments. With simple, direct and ironic lyrics, Nelson D declares the right to love and financial help. Totally inspired by the memes about Pix's deposit mode in Brazil, the artist returns to the same humor, in a funny and catchy slogan. In fact, behind Pix's memes and also Nelson's music, there is a bitter reality, the economic precariousness of which most Brazilians are victims. Claiming financial aid in a house music context is a small form of outburst and reaction that can easily be triggered on the dance floor. In this track, Nelson unleashes his passion for groups like the Chemical Brothers or Gusgus without sacrificing the inclusion of elements belonging to indigenous cultures. In this case, Nelson uses samples from the Chapareke, an interesting string instrument indigenous to Mexico, as well as his inseparable maracas and rattles.

PREMIERE : Nelson D - PIX

She was dancing all alone, the room was crowded but it were as if she was the only ethereal creature of note. For everyone else was not there really, at least not in the same way as she was. She was really there. An eternal body which moved and weaved between the walls long after everyone had left the club. It was as if her very spirit lived within the brickwork which made this house a home. Perhaps that is what it was, her home.

Wendy was her name but it could be anything to anyone given the time of day. For she was all things to all people - a happy smile, a guilty conscience, a careless whisper, a slow dance, a wild romance. She was a moment in time - a vision in the midst of the night only to be forgotten as the sun rose. She was everyone's ghost...

Çâline With C is set to release new music on Electrifying Impact - a raucous EBM infused record destined to bang in the small dark rooms for which it was intended for. Intricate and heavy at the same time, this one will do just fine on the floor.

PREMIERE: Çâline With C - Wendy(Venderstrooik Remix)[Electrifying Impact]

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