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Journey Worm

Out now on Rekids: lnk.to/REKIDS202

Following his ‘Mazes & Monoliths’ EP on Rekids in 2021, as well as releases on Running Back, Hypercolour, Idle Hands, and Craigie Knowes, the Elastic Dreams boss returns to Radio Slave’s label for another standout three-track EP of colourful and psychedelic cuts.

Leading the release is ‘The Mind Blanks At The Glare’, which sees the Bristolian utilise low-slung breakbeats, bouncing basslines, and fluttering synths for a chugging start to the EP. ‘Don’t Look In The Freezer’ follows with dubbed-out FX and stomping low end, before ‘Cosmic Trigger’ brings hypnotic bass together with trippy, twinkling arps and dreamy pads for a gentle finalé.

"Each track on the EP wasn’t designed for dance floors necessarily, it’s more kinda ‘head music’, and for those that have delved into the A Sagittariun albums, the kind of productions that are synonymous with the more ‘listening experience’ side of A Sagittariun. ‘Strange Brew’ is probably an apt title for this triplet, as each cut goes on its own psychedelic journey, traversing BPMs, shades and moods." - A Sagittariun

A Sagittariun

Cosmic Trigger

A Sagittariun - Cosmic Trigger

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

The dance floor as devotional is a trope as old as the club itself. But, with her new album, Jesus Was An Alien, Perel subverts the stakes of our collective communion: Who are our arms raised to? Who are we seeking salvation from?

“Jesus Was An Alien is a discourse about whether Jesus was an actual alien,” she explains, “but also a social debate about what is and implies religion today.” She offers up her provocative second record – her first on Kompakt – as a soundtrack for the listener’s own journey through the intricacies and ironies of modern belief.

Picking up on the themes she brought to her debut, the 2018’s LP Hermetica on DFA, Perel has created ten tracks rich with spirit and allusion. Her influences are myriad, from the indie dance hitmakers of the early 2000s – Hot Chip, Simian Mobile Disco, Justice – to rave compilations that predate her ascent to the DJ booth, to more abstract inputs. Living with synesthesia, she says, “I feel emotions and colors piling up inside me, then there’s a triggering sound or event that opens a valve. My tracks are color streams that tell a story.”

Jesus Was An Alien is not just multicolored – it’s multi-lingual too, slipping in and out of tongues in a single track, sometimes dispensing with words altogether (the ecstatic breakdown of “The Principle of Vibration”). The album features Perel’s voice almost entirely but for her special collaboration with Canadian songwriter Marie Davidson on the title track.

“Jesus Was An Alien” stirs like a late-night revelation, a heady discovery awakened in the dark. Perel lays out a fiercely disciplined electro pulse, with Davidson’s proclamations growing more fervent over the song’s sensual stride. “I already said everything with my synthesizers and the melodies I created,” Perel explains of the collaboration, but “somehow she gave the song a voice I couldn’t.”

Perel drives further not only spiritually but sonically across the ten tracks, taking thrilling production risks: standouts include her breathy vocals atop a melodic piano strut on “Matrix;” the delirious blur of ghostly chimes and disembodied voices of “Religion;” and the retro radiance of “The Principle of Vibration,” in which Perel exhorts us to “come on and vibe” over an athletic riff and shuffling percussion.

“Kill The System,” meanwhile, hits the listener with tense acid pulses, building to only an imagined release and calls out the end of patriarchy. Album closer “Am Kanal” starts as a pensive cloud of a track, finally breaking into a rich textural rain of synths and stabs.

The variety throughout Jesus Was An Alien underlines Perel’s purpose in this latest project; she’s experimenting her way to answers – or maybe just more questions. After all, she says, “questions are the beginning of something new.”

Perel - The Principle Of Vibration

MASSIVE RELEASE!!! "Tei" is just a killer of a track. High recommendation straight out of the Kompakt office.

Virtuous perfectionist, obsessed with mixing bassdrums, recording percussions and sampling drummers, Fango never fails to surprise. it doesnt matter if its a drum machine, a gong from an orchestra or simply a voice (like in this case), he will make it sound right.
Degustibus Music delivers his new weapon of mass destruction, use at your own risk!

TEI / VAMPIRO (degu014) [196kbps] UPCOMING

modular only track, 0 effects or tweaks outside of my rack, used the Xer Dualis mixer for the first time, used a sample from Roni Size 'Ballet Dance', in morphagene

Xer Ballet

Acronym - Realisation

Charged Particles

Currents

After the recent collaborative Library Of Babel Ep alongside Retina.it and PRG/M as r2π , Ruhig is back on Midgar with the 4tracker Sleeping Oracle Ep, first instalment of a release trilogy. Expect nice things!

Release Date : 27 November
Mastered at D&M Berlin

Ruhig - B1. Charming Sandworms

The sky was a cool open blue as he watched from the window of the small passenger plane. Soon he would leap outwards back down to earth, you had to take such opportunities to float while you can. The clouds seemed soft and fluffy, they were less intimidating when you were buried with your head amidst them. The parachute would be all that would save his life, however he feared not... In fact he was rather looking forward to the experience, a jump to earth. 

L.B Dub Corp returns! Boom! Luke Slater returns to his Mote-Evolver imprint with a new album which has received a huge show of support from those in the know... you have been warned.

Side Effects

PREMIERE: L.B Dub Corp - Float When You Can [Mote-Evolver]

Supercinema 002

Hidden Dimension (Patrick Russell Dub Version)

They’re back! Silicone Soul march from the shadows with some long-awaited new material. Come on, we’ll take you there…

Of course they never actually went away: their label Darkroom Dubs has remained the tour de force it’s always been since it launched in 2003. They remain just as in-demand as touring DJs, too. But life doing what it does best (getting in the way of doing cool stuff) has prevented Silicone Soul from what they do best (make music). Until now…

‘Fahrenheit 625’ raises the heat on Darkroom Dubs seminal Traxx series. Tailored for low-lights and lower-ceilings, it’s their darkest sonic laboratory and the perfect home for this comeback thumper. Stripped-back, heads-down grit noir with a juicy, thumping bassline, a vocal from one of the greatest house conjurors of all time and some devilishly trippy elements, ‘Fahrenheit 625’ is heavy and gets straight to the point. An unabashed statement of comeback intent from Craig and Graeme… It leaves us wanting more.

Remix-wise Mexican techno maestro Theus Mago links up with continental cousin ld!r for a subversive excursion, where a whole new top-line spirals in and out of focus with raffishly funky results. Finally, Argentina’s Shall Ocin dusts off some majestic organ chords, whips up a snake-like synth-line straight out of 1999 but bites like it’s 2029. It sounds like the future, but the speed we’re all hurtling at we’ll be there before we know it. March, come on, we’ll take you there…

Available now from our WebShop & Beatport and all other digital stores on September 27th. 

Mastered by Conor Dalton at Glowcast Audio. 
Art by Sean Meaders.
www.darkroomdubs.com

Hidden Dimension (Patrick Russell Dub Version)

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