prog and tech

Agents Of Time - Nightfall

Buy / Stream: https://lnk.to/TheMirageEP

Agents Of Time return to Afterlife with two heartrending audio expeditions.
Italian act Agents Of Time have established a sterling reputation over the years. Their mesmerising approach to club music blends emotive melodies and transcendent rhythms, with dance floor-centred beats.
The Mirage EP begins with its title cut; enveloping the listener is a swathe of atmospheric synth and pad work from the off. Oscillating frequencies complement the sultry rhythms while a life-affirming riff forms the stirring centrepiece. 
On the flip ‘Northern Lights’ is a sensitive, emotive composition
which gradually increases its emotional impact as it builds and evolves.

Agents Of Time - The Mirage EP (AL062)
A1. The Mirage
B1. Northern Lights

Agents Of Time - The Mirage

Buy/stream: kompakt.fm/releases/universo

Italian duo Agents Of Time have been incredibly busy over the past few years, from releasing a string of classic singles – including their recent single for Afterlife, “The Mirage”, which earned more than five million views on Instagram – to remixing The Weeknd’s “Take My Breath”, which appeared on his recent Dawn FM (Alternative World). But the biggest news is here now – their second album, Universo, is ready. Elevating their trademark melodic techno with an exquisite pop-ness, Universo has found its ideal home with Kompakt, following their Music Made Paradise 2020 debut EP for the label. It’s a meeting of minds that makes perfect sense.

Andrea Di Ceglie and Luigi Tutolo, the two members of Agents Of Time, used their time during the pandemic to work on Universo, an album loosely conceptualised around their ‘personal universo’, a manifestation of the world Di Ceglie and Tutolo built both within and around their studio. This accounts for the sparkle and brightness of Universo – it’s full of personality, vim and vigour, the duo experimenting with their music, exploring its furthest corners. If you come to Universo expecting just another album of melodic techno, get ready to be pleasantly surprised – there’s a whole lot more going on here, and it’s all equally compelling.

After a typically poetic opening gesture – the swirling, synaesthetic, self-titled intro track – expectations are immediately blindsided with the two-step pop of “Fallin’”, sung with gentle clarity by guest Audrey Janssens, a dream of a song that harks back to the glory days of early ‘00s UK garage. “Interstellar Cowboy” is a confident, lithe, disco-fied strut; the gentle minor-key piano of “Liquid Fantasy” spirals into a gorgeously melancholy techno-pop epic, Vicky Who?’s voice rich with yearning. Janssens also reappears on the electro-swirl of “Poison”; “Dream Vision” revisits their single “The Mirage”, soft with sweeping strings, loaded with drama; “Part Of Life” sashays into view with a schaffel-stomp.

This rich variety throws the more dancefloor-focused tracks, like “Ciao”, into even starker relief – they’re more decisive, streamlined, yet rich with detail, chugging, Moroder-esque bass meeting strobe-lit synths that fire melodies out into the firmament. Universo feels texturally dense, but it still breathes, its sounds so tactile you want to reach out and grab them, its tunes so seductive you can’t get them out of your head. Universo is a fiercely beautiful album, brave in its spirit, a perfectly poised meeting-point of pop melody and stylish, lush techno: Agents Of Time in excelsis.

Universo

Agents Of Time - Poison feat. Audrey Janssens

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

Italian duo Agents Of Time have been incredibly busy over the past few years, from releasing a string of classic singles – including their recent single for Afterlife, “The Mirage”, which earned more than five million views on Instagram – to remixing The Weeknd’s “Take My Breath”, which appeared on his recent Dawn FM (Alternative World). But the biggest news is here now – their second album, Universo, is ready. Elevating their trademark melodic techno with an exquisite pop-ness, Universo has found its ideal home with Kompakt, following their Music Made Paradise 2020 debut EP for the label. It’s a meeting of minds that makes perfect sense.

Andrea Di Ceglie and Luigi Tutolo, the two members of Agents Of Time, used their time during the pandemic to work on Universo, an album loosely conceptualised around their ‘personal universo’, a manifestation of the world Di Ceglie and Tutolo built both within and around their studio. This accounts for the sparkle and brightness of Universo – it’s full of personality, vim and vigour, the duo experimenting with their music, exploring its furthest corners. If you come to Universo expecting just another album of melodic techno, get ready to be pleasantly surprised – there’s a whole lot more going on here, and it’s all equally compelling.

After a typically poetic opening gesture – the swirling, synaesthetic, self-titled intro track – expectations are immediately blindsided with the two-step pop of “Fallin’”, sung with gentle clarity by guest Audrey Janssens, a dream of a song that harks back to the glory days of early ‘00s UK garage. “Interstellar Cowboy” is a confident, lithe, disco-fied strut; the gentle minor-key piano of “Liquid Fantasy” spirals into a gorgeously melancholy techno-pop epic, Vicky Who?’s voice rich with yearning. Janssens also reappears on the electro-swirl of “Poison”; “Dream Vision” revisits their single “The Mirage”, soft with sweeping strings, loaded with drama; “Part Of Life” sashays into view with a schaffel-stomp.

This rich variety throws the more dancefloor-focused tracks, like “Ciao”, into even starker relief – they’re more decisive, streamlined, yet rich with detail, chugging, Moroder-esque bass meeting strobe-lit synths that fire melodies out into the firmament. Universo feels texturally dense, but it still breathes, its sounds so tactile you want to reach out and grab them, its tunes so seductive you can’t get them out of your head. Universo is a fiercely beautiful album, brave in its spirit, a perfectly poised meeting-point of pop melody and stylish, lush techno: Agents Of Time in excelsis.

Agents Of Time - Vocal Ghost

Agents Of Time - Blu

Agents Of Time - Ciao

Agents Of Time - The World Is Dump

Agents Of Time - Liquid Fantasy Feat. Vicky Who?

Agents Of Time - Pulses

Agents Of Time - Interstellar Cowboy

Agents Of Time - Fallin Feat. Audrey Janssens

Hey melodic lovers!
This is my first original set, inspired by love and freedom.

Hope it will touch you, same as it did to me :)

Free with me

Free With Me - Nic Rumi

Many of you have requested the full version of "Electronic Soul" - my original track inspired by the iconic @Bjork and her interview about the soul in electronic music! (part of the interview is also part of the track video).

The famous quote from Bjork during her interview "If there's not soul in the music, it's because nobody put it there" has inspired me to create this track!

The message is that we are the heart & soul of the electronic music.

Electronic Soul

Connect with Agents Of Time:

Website: http://www.agentsoftime.com/
Twitter: http://twitter.com/AgentsOfTime
ResidentAdvisor: http://www.residentadvisor.net/dj/agentsoftime
SoundCloud: http://soundcloud.com/agents-of-time

After the success of Powers of Ten, Stephan Bodzin's latest and greatest full length, the German tastemaker has now invited a key selection of artists to remix tracks from it. This great collection will be released digitally—with two bonus remixes by Super Flu and Marc Romboy—as well as on vinyl on the 18th December 2015. The original album came in June on Bodzin's own Herzblut Recordings and was a hugely personal affair that has been played far and wide by DJs and danced to by clubbers all over the world. Now breathing fresh life and different perspectives into the original source material are the likes of big name stars Maceo Plex & Shall Ochin, Fur Coat, Extrawelt, long time musical sparring partner Marc Romboy, Pan Pot, Max Cooper, Agents of Time, Dominik Eulberg and many more. Things kick off with Ellum Audio boss Maceo Plex and Shall Ocin, who flip 'Powers of Ten' into a serene and slow burning track full of spiritual synth lines and heavenly pads, before Spanish pair Edu Imbernon and Coyu work their magic on 'Wir' and reimagine it as a sumptuous and slow burning tech track with a droning baseline and cosmic melodies. Influential Crosstown Rebels act Fur Coat then tackle 'Singularity' and cook up a brooding, elongated main room track that locks you into its groove and never lets you go. Next, long time Bodzin collaborator and friend Marc Romboy makes 'Ix' into a tense tech tool that balances on a knife edge as menacing bass roams and rolls below. From there, Cocoon team and live specialists Extrawelt makes 'Blue Giant' into a spooky minimal cut that is full of haunting atmosphere, festival headlining Second State pair Pan-Pot then offer lots of tense groove and sombre machine melodies on their version of 'Zulu.' In the second half there are dark remixes from Max Cooper, intense synth jams from Agents of Time, typically beautiful and musical offerings from Dominik Eulberg, tripped out techno rollers from Gabriel Ananda and two digital only remixes of 'Birth' that are deep and inviting from Super Flu and clean, reflective and soothing from Marc Romboy. Monoloc also comes up with the goods on his deep and dubby remix of 'Singularity'. This collection plays out almost like a mix, taking you up and down and through many different styles of electronic music, each as absorbing and essential as the next, and that's all thanks to the on point and informed A&R of label boss Stephan Bodzin.


Beatport

Stephan Bodzin - Zulu (Agents Of Time Remix)

Petra

Weapon

Momentum EP

Omega

Punisher

Buy/Stream: https://aboveandbeyond.ffm.to/aiabr.pbt
Release Date: 21st April 2020
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A new 'respray' of 2019 Anjunabeats club cut 'All In' from the London based trio carries a message that has never been more vital: we're all in this together.

With health workers around the globe locked in battle with COVID-19, Above & Beyond were inspired to revisit Fatum, Genix, Jaytech and Judah's tag-team effort, previously titled 'All In', from summer 2019.

Featuring a succinct yet powerful vocal refrain, Above & Beyond's Respray of "We're All In This Together" handles the source material with care, adding orchestral textures, classic trance plucks and a delicate piano outro. 

Above & Beyond says, "It's something we've been hearing so often this past month: "we're all in this together". These are powerful words for our time. They are a reminder that we all have a role to play, whether you're a key worker or isolating at home."

The official music video features cameos from over 70 frontline workers who are also members of Above & Beyond's official Facebook fan group, alongside Anjunabeats and Anjunadeep artists and label staff.  

Proceeds from the single will be donated to the World Health Organisation's COVID-19 Solidarity Response Fund supporting vulnerable communities in nations without a strong health care system.

Buy/Stream

Fatum, Genix, Jaytech & Judah - We're All In This Together (Above & Beyond Respray)

Buy/Stream: https://anjunabeats.ffm.to/3ltr.pbt
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Release Date: 24th April 2020

A radio powerhouse anthem throughout 2020, ’Tokyo’ from 3LAU and Xira continues to turn heads. With the likes of Above & Beyond, Tiesto, Laidback Luke and Diplo supporting the track, plus radio play on BBC Radio 1 and a four-week streak atop the Sirius BPM chart, ’Tokyo’ now sees two reworks from different ends of the dance music spectrum. 

Ploughing ahead into darker, techno minded productions that have seen them collaborate with Armin van Buuren and remix Gabriel & Dresden already this year, U.S. based Fatum return to Anjunabeats with another bruising rework.

On the flip side, rising star of the U.K. drum and bass scene Monrroe makes his label debut. Supported by Hybrid Minds, S.P.Y., Keeno and Friction, the Shogun Records young gun proves why he’s one to watch on the British dance music scene. 

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