Artist: https://soundcloud.com/jonbjorn
Track: Samba From Ipanema
Label: https://soundcloud.com/oorecordings
Format: Cassette Tape, Digital, VA
Release date: 18/6/21
Purchase: https://oorecordings.bandcamp.com/album/splits-1-j-nbj-rn-torolf-stendik

Splits is a new series of releases from OO Recordings that focuses on connecting two artistic minds into one split release.

The first installment is a Nordic affair with Iceland's Jónbjörn on the A-side and Finland's Torolf Stendik on the B-side. Though stylistically operating in different shades of electronic music, both artists share a knack for relentless experimentation, ingenious use of their chosen array of sounds, and Nordic quirks that are hard to put a finger on. The release spans a spectrum of glitchy experimental with hints of IDM and minimalistic techno with industrial twists on the A-side, whereas the B-Side combines slower, downtempo-ish tracks with deeper house cuts with acid tips.

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PREMIERE | Jónbjörn - Samba From Ipanema [OO Recordings] 2021

German electro producer Martin Matiske has recently breathed new life into his Blackploid alias. The project’s revival continues to bear fruit with the Strange Stars EP, Matiske’s third Blackploid release of 2021 and second for Central Processing Unit after issuing March’s Cosmic Traveler EP through the Sheffield label.

Blackploid’s two CPU drops have more in common than just stargazing titles. Those who enjoyed Cosmic Traveler will find plenty to like again in these four tracks, with Matiske serving up another quartet of snappy machine-funk joints this time around. However, while there is certainly a throughline between Cosmic Traveler and Strange Stars, this EP also finds Blackploid pushing the envelope at points by taking risks with his synth tones which thrill and enliven the record.

In keeping with the cosmic theme of Blackploid’s recent output, Strange Stars kicks off with ‘Star Patrol’. While this opening cut is full of the same needle-gun basslines and dinky synths that characterised Cosmic Traveler, the drum programming eschews the broken beats favoured by many in the scene for a straight house/techno snap. It makes for a very groovy jam, one with Drexciya, Computer World-era Kraftwerk and a pinch of Space Dimension Controller in its mix.

Indeed, the only track on Strange Stars which skips along on a broken beat is second entry ‘The Signal’. ‘The Signal’ also features some of Blackploid’s most impressive electronics programming to date, announcing itself with a brilliantly unusual synth that sounds like an old video game unit which has just gained sentience. When this alien tone is combined with another precision-engineered bassline the track invokes the grizzly bangers of the L.I.E.S. label, though the keyboard stabs which enter periodically also hint to the funkier electro of, say, Egyptian Lover.

‘The Unseen’, the first B-side of Strange Stars, finds Blackploid bringing together many of the things which made the two previous tunes such standouts. A steady four-on-the-floor and a slightly haunted feel to the synth choices casts back to ‘Star Patrol’, but much like ‘The Signal’ this joint also features some rather weird tones which are a hair’s breadth away from machine malfunction. It’s a feeling which runs through to closing cut ‘Light Corridor’, a number where melodies and anti-melodies zip around an array of gurgling electronic cells.

Martin Matiske’s fine run of Blackploid EPs continues with the intergalactic electro stylings of Strange Stars.

RIYL: Drexciya, Cardopusher, Legowelt, Beau Wanzer, Jensen Interceptor

Strange Stars

Blackploid - Strange Stars

The weather was changing, a sombre autumnal breeze drifted softly upon the morning. It sent a small shiver up his spine as he wandered through the park on his way to the day ahead, crunchy leaves crackled underfoot as he walked purposefully forward. Only a few months ago he had been hear, dancing in the warm rays of the sunshine and the blue sky ambience. Now this subtle shift was enough to ensure that his mood was more pensive, thoughtful and reflective on what might come next as the darker months loomed near. 

Eversines is set to feature on a new split EP on Lonely Planets Rec alongside Caim. It's a stellar release which is as welcome in the headphones as it will be on warm dancefloors in cold months. This one comes highly recommended.

LONELY006

PREMIERE: Eversines - Subtle Shift [Lonely Planets Rec]

Artist:  https://soundcloud.com/tomlivingstonmusic
Album:  Red Spider
Label:  https://soundcloud.com/nebulaerecords
Release date:  25/03/2022
Format:  Vinyl & Digital
Buy: https://nebulaerecords.bandcamp.com/album/red-spider

Nebulae returns with a very special release to start the year. Red Spider, a planetary nebula, located near the heart of the Milky Way, Northwest of the constellation Sagittarius, and approximately 5000 light-years away from Earth, is the namesake of this new cosmic trip. Glasgow-based producer Arctor (Tom Livingston), delivers 6 pieces for the occasion, where you may find a fine collection of dreamy textures, lush pads, intricate drum patterns and funky acid basslines, all seasoned with his acid jazz approach, a distinctive signature of the Tremors label head honcho.
Producing high tempo electro and techno with soulful Detroit flavoured sounds, always showing an almost sick obsession with twisting textures in order to squeeze them to their maximum expression, he has been steadily building his catalogue, dating back to September 2015, with his first release Genovese EP. Since then he has been releasing, not only his own material, but also remixing a number of different labels and has had his tracks played by artists such as Bicep, Oneman and CEM.
For Red Spider, the A-side explores three different sci-fi scenarios, all glued together with gritty pads, reaching maximum expression in Echopraxia. Here, Arctor shows an astonishing spectacle of stretching, chopping and melting back and forth its stuttering chords, like an alien spider would weave its web. On the flip, B-side presents a more eclectic palette of textures; going from the energetic Junk and travelling throughout the relentless banger Protect Your Head, until we arrive at our final destination: Memory Gene (DJ Friendly Version), a smooth rework of Livingston’s first track on his Tremors imprint, originally released back in 2017.
Timeless electronics from a modern-day master.
Mastered at The Bass Valley Studio Pressed by Record Industry Distributed by Subwax
Release date: 25.03.22
Format: Vinyl & Digital
CAT#: NBL011
Clips: https://soundcloud.com/nebulaerecords/nbl011-arctor-red-spider Pre-order here: https://nebulaerecords.bandcamp.com/album/red-spider

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PREMIERE // Arctor -  Memory Gene (DJ Friendly Version) [Nebulae Records]

Various - WARCC03
Label: Warning (@warningberlin)
Mastering: Behrang Mohammadi
Artwork: Atelier Superplus
https://soundcloud.com/na_one

We proudly like to present to you our first full on Various Artists compilation on one of our beloved media - Music Cassette.  We collected bits of bouncing Electro, celestial Trance, fluid Breakbeats and in between for heavy rotation and impact on the dance floors of today and tomorrow.  Dig out your walkman and activate the Mega Bass, or clean the tape heads of your deck with a Q-Tip and press the Dolby button.  The hiss is calling. Full force Warning experience copied to magnetic tape to represent the retro future sound of Berlin on two sides.

PREMIERE : Naone - Underwater Bubble

ANCPT006 Low Tape - Lost Heaven EP (incl. John Beltran remix)

Matti Turunen is probably best known for his work as Morphology (with Michael Diekmann) but here he goes it alone for a new EP on Cultivated Electronics vinyl-only series,  Cultivated Electronics Ltd.  

The Finnish electronic maestro, Turunen turns up the Electro-funk to the max with lush arrangements, dulcet melodies and gritty beats.

• www.cultivatedelectronics.bandcamp.com

@mturunen
@cultivated-electronics

Radau

PREMIERE : Matti Turunen - Xhante [CELTD011]

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BUY 12" and digital: https://echocentricrecords.bandcamp.com/album/diametric-ep

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Following his solo 12" debut in November on AC Records, Armec returns with a 4-track EP on Echocentric Records. 

The music on offer is rich and emotional, microworlds of subtle melodies, pads and sci-fi drones that ooze both melancholy and hope, and will appeal to anyone into electro, IDM and techno.

A-side is a nod to Robbie's IDM roots. Just check the expansive soaring synth-work on "Auden" and the analogue moods of "Conceptualise". The droney, murky & dystopian sci-fi soundscapes of side B offer another view into Armec's production work.

Keep an eye out for Armec in 2020, more quality releases on their way.

A1. - Auden
A2. - Conceptualise
B1. - Disassociate
B2. - Dystopian Reality

Armec - "Diametric EP" is scheduled for release on the 24th of Jan 2020 both on vinyl and digital formats. 

Produced by Robbie Mecrow
Mastered at Curve Pusher by Lawrie Dunster
Vinyl distributed by Shite Music (@shitemusic), manufactured by R.A.N.D. Muzik

Echocentric Records is a Finnish label run by @deeprhythms releasing lush & dreamy electronic music.
Contact: timo@echocentricrecords.com

'Ave it!

Armec - Diametric EP - ECR003

The subconscious cave is not an empty space in the conscious mind,
it is a bubbling space, haunted by questions and mystical activity.

“Natif” (Stalactite - in Hebrew) is a seventh tracks EP by Tel-Aviv based DJ and producer MYKI.

Any substance, water drip or murmur reveals a cloak of meaning in the form of a showy echo.
a variety of ancient animals, forbidden imaginary fruits and mysterious passions sneak in at night and look for a place of refuge to rest, to sleep.
The stalactites (Natif) are amorphous juice from the bottom of the mind, they are the seeds of confusion and irrationality and they seep through cracks in the cave and produce chaos and trembling until suddenly, out of a nightmare are born proud crystals of splendor and inspiring beauty.

Artwork: Yair Ron
Additional Artwork: Blame Honey & Yani Ani
Mastering: Tamir Lavy

Natif

TFSTK008 : MYKI - Natif (snippets)

Glasgow based club, record label, rolling papers and collective running out of an old sweetie factory.  https://lunacymodule.com

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