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Taken from @forces-music's new album Epoch, out March 22, 2020 via @ginandplatonic.

Following Forces’ breakthrough string of acclaimed albums coming out on the key label triad of Bio Future Lab., Conditional & Genot Centre in 2018, Gin&Platonic is extending the output of the Finnish musician and multidisciplinary artist Joonas Siren with his next full-length Epoch:

"The album maps out all these topical ideas (the general political, ecological and social problems) sonically. Collapsing sound material, unsteady temporal structures, noise and distortion build up intensities without catharsis. The tracks are made with different live programming techniques, peculiar time-stretching and layering techniques and other VST and FX’s dysfunctions. Within the mournful aural chaos, there is a potentiality for change."

- Forces aka Joonas Siren

Produced by Forces
@forces-music

Mastered by Wim Dehaen
@wimdehaen

Artwork by Jiri Macku
jirimacku.tumblr.com

Released by:
Gin&Platonic

Bandcamp

Premiere: Forces - Markov Vertigo [Gin&Platonic]

https://bit.ly/2J0273F

Infect Me by @b0gue from the second part of the new series of compilation FAC (Fake Avant-club) by @bio-future-lab

Buy-link "FAC II": bio-future-lab.bandcamp.com/album/fac-ii

Released by:
Bio Future Laboratory

Release date:
28 March 2020

Artwork by Seva Olenin, founder of @lloe

Premiere: BOGUE - Infect Me [Bio Future Laboratory]

https://bit.ly/2JiFPuo

Taken from @bungalovv's new album Donde Hubo Fuego, out April 24, 2020 via @infinite-machine.

Pre-order: https://infinitemachine.bandcamp.com/album/im076-bungalovv-donde-hubo-fuego

Buenos Aires-born producer Pablo Betas — known as Bungalovv — celebrates his return to the Infinite Machine family with the release of the enchanting debut album, Donde Hubo Fuego.

Pulling inspiration from a diverse appetite comprised of dembow, jungle, dancehall, obscure club experiments and animalistic synthesis, Bungalovv also utilises foley recordings exceptionally across the ten tracks.

Currently residing in Berlin, Bungalovv is also a founding member of TRRUENO, a collective and label that was born in Buenos Aires, united by new technologies as a resource and means to expand the spectrum of aesthetic possibilities in electronic, experimental, performance and audiovisual scenes.

Artwork by David Streleck
https://www.instagram.com/evanula1/

Mixed by Ro Stambuk & Sergey Kolesov

Mastered by Kamil Sarkowicz

Released by:
Infinite Machine

Premiere: Bungalovv - Baldios [Infinite Machine]

https://bit.ly/2x88Sym

Taken from @kayal_jd's new KG Mixtape, out April 15, 2020 via @beat-craft-music

In April, 2020 Beat Craft has selected the Egyptian artist Omar Kayal for its debut as an imprint. Beat Craft 001, KG Mixtape, is a 22 minute mixtape of 8 original previously unreleased tracks by Omar Kayal plus a collaboration with Egyptian producer Essperx. 

Previously released on Egypt-based label ANBA, Kayal's talent emerges strongly in this mixtape where melodic lines are "heavily influenced by my Nubian origin and developed on piano scales in nights spent over Ableton", he comments. Epic choruses are mixed with breaks, drum and bass, more gloomy atmospheres and subaqeous alien synths and organs. The work reflects everyday restlessness, anxiety, stress, will to escape, and the artist's existential self-adressed question: is it worth it?

Artwork by Carlo Quaranta

Revised by Mostafa Onsy

Mastered by Roland Nagy

Released by:
Beat Craft

The work is a tribute of the artist to Nada Hasan

Premiere: Omar Kayal - Nayba [Beat Craft]

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Увод У Ботанику by @lil_taty1. Taken from 02faulty two single split release, out April 25, 2020 via One Man Army.

Pre-order: https://liltaty.bandcamp.com/album/02faulty

Lil Taty is Belgrade based producer and DJ who emerged on the scene during spring 2013. His music is heavily influenced by UK club music in its most sinister shape, yet manages to find its own niche among the contemporary club movement. He is a co-founder of @minoradjustments-records alongside @bolelee and founder of MURK @murkbeograd podcast - mix series which discover fresh and exciting DJs from both the local and international underground scenes. With influences ranging from Fugazi to Lee 'Scratch' Perry, Lil Taty is a man with a taste for audacious sound, which is reflected in both his DJ sets and his productions for the likes of Classical Trax, heel.zone and SEAGRAVE.

Artwork by @springboardtx

Mastered by @bolelee

Released by:
One Man Army

Premiere: Lil Taty - Увод У Ботанику [One Man Army]

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Taken from @alleycatss new album Evr2, out April 21, 2020 via @midlifemusic.

Evr2 is a collection of odes to nostalgia / letting go / "facing reality"
Soundtrack to imaginary transitory places
Seizing the mood of lonely summer dusk
Goodbye past.

Artwork by Alley Catss
http://alleycatss.neocities.org

Mastered by Fausto Mercier (Roland Nagy)

Released by:
Midlife Music

Dedicated to Alexandru Cuza

Evr2

Premiere: Alley Catss - Evr21 [Midlife Music]

https://bit.ly/2Smp3Q1

Taken from @markbartha new album '18', out May 1, 2020 via @exiles-electronics.

https://barthamark.com/

The idea of the most recent personal project - the album titled '18' - of Márk Bartha (music composer for theater and film) came to life in 2018. At that time, facing a pause in the flow of life along with a set of personal problems, the artist decided do use the act of creating as self-therapy. To shape the musical material, Márk drove his inspiration from personal experiences and deep self-reflection.

Artwork by Pleux
https://www.instagram.com/pleux_/

Mastered by Roland Nagy (Fausto Mercier)

Released by EXILES
EXILES is a Budapest-based label focusing on regional electronics.
https://exiles-electronics.bandcamp.com/

Premiere: Márk Bartha - ktty [EXILES]

https://bit.ly/35zB49U

Taken from @dj-pacifier new EP Rescue & Research Pt​.​1: DJ Pacifier, out May 15, 2020 via @failed-units.

Pre-order: https://failedunits.bandcamp.com/album/rescue-research-pt-1-dj-pacifier

Montreal's DJ Pacifier debuts on Failed Units with 3 ridiculous breakcore power grabbers. Berlin's @smog_0 and Failed Units boss @daniel-ruane-2 come in and finish the hit.

Full Album Preview: https://soundcloud.com/failed-units/rescue-research-pt-1-dj-pacifier

Design by Luca Lozano, Sheffield
PLANETLUKE.COM

Mastered by Dominic Clare @ Declared Sound, Leeds

Released by Failed Units

Premiere: DJ Pacifier - Endless Mode (smog Remix) [Failed Units]

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Taken from @manenemamaneamen new EP NEMA MANE, out June 1 2020, via @kepasaparadoks.

Order: https://kepasaparadoks.bandcamp.com/album/mane-nema-mane

MANE is Belgrade based DJ & Producer who's been active in the scene since 2008.

His work is a constant search for the best way to interpret the sound design-pushing to the limit-production ideas, without limiting himself to any style or concept.

Released by kepasaparadoks.

Premiere: MANE - Kaži Šta Mi Je [kepasaparadoks.]

https://bit.ly/2Lsfew1

Taken from @monotronique new album MAAAAAAAD, out May 22, 2020 via @hyperboloid.

Pre-order: https://hyperboloidrecords.com/album/maaaaaaad

Monotronique is an Ukrainian producer and DJ from Kharkiv (UA). His production is characterized by a distorted minimalistic vibe with a bass music inﬂuence. From heavy basses and 2step-like drums to ambiance landscapes and electro beats. Previously released on Opal Tapes and Shared Meanings among other labels, Monotronique debuts on Hyperboloid Records with 'MAAAAAAAD'.

In this album Monotronique was interested in a new kind of sound and focusing on creation of specific atmosphere inside.the sound.
MAAAAAAAD is based on different sides of bass music with detours through dance-hall and house. When put together all genres mutate and interconnect into funny and mad atmosphere. Monotronique wanted to achieve this with synths and a certain way of mixing tracks, adding to the final mix a kind of a "wet" sound. A special effect as if you were listening to the music in a room full of toys, balls and balloons, a sonic journey to the amusement park.

Artwork by gsm_garden
https://www.instagram.com/gsmgarden/

Mastering by A.Fruit

Released by Hyperboloid

Premiere: Monotronique - Fly Like That [Hyperboloid]

https://bit.ly/2XGcPUf

Taken from @hhythemacumbas new album Camouflage Vector: Edits From Live Actions 2017​-​2019, out June 3, 2020 via @nyege-nyege-tapes.

Pre-order: https://nyegenyegetapes.bandcamp.com/album/camouflage-vector-edits-from-live-actions-2017-2019

This release combines a series of live actions by HHY & The Macumbas, from November 2017 in a club in Barcelos to December 2019 in an oil tank in Tenerife Island, with a June 2019 open air performance featuring Adrian Sherwood on the mix in between.

HHY & The Macumbas emerged in 2008 from the cryptic SOOPA collective from Porto, a group of musicians and artists responsible for the early 00’s local experimental scene explosion. For the last decade, HHY&TM have been actively playing live with various ensemble configurations in venues, clubs and festivals all around Europe (Unsound, Primavera Sound, Supersonic, among many others) and released the albums "Throat Permission Cut" (Silo Rumor, 2014) and "Beheaded Totem" (House Of Mythology, 2018).

HHY & The Macumbas are a shifting musical entity where circular percussive mutations, brass riffs and electronics are dubbed by echoes in often sensory-overload live actions. Founded by Jonathan Saldanha, the ensemble works as a rhythm laboratory, in a constant research involving pressure, exhilaration, alterity and warped time perception.

Graphics by Laurie Pitt

Edited and mixed by Jonathan Saldanha during Covid-19 lockdown in Kampala.

Recorded by Jos

Mastered at Declared Sound

Released by Nyege Nyege Tapes

Camouflage Vector: Edits From Live Actions 2017-2019

Premiere: HHY & The Macumbas - Wilderness Of Glass Version [Nyege Nyege Tapes]

https://bit.ly/2ZFmXz4

Taken from @strahinja-arbutina upcoming EP Extended Power Cuts, via @puppytapes.

Strahinja Arbutina previously released on BANK Records, Natural Sciences, Clan Destine and many more. He co-runs the Croatian label Low Income $quad and has a monthly residency on the Lyon/Paris based LYL Radio.

Released by PUPPY TAPES

Premiere: Strahinja Arbutina - Fumes [PUPPY TAPES]

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Order link: https://genot.bandcamp.com/album/ok-im-real-i-think 

Taken from adaa (@helllllllllo) new album ok i think im real, out June 14, 2020 via @genotcentre 

In "ok im real i think", adaa plays a high-stakes game of far-reaching density, acceleration and saturation. Instantly blasting off, this album is a showcase in extreme kick drum technology, a detuned synth stab pandaemonium, a granular fission chamber full of dense clicking sounds, seemingly originating from some digital slime dimension. This notion of saturation is not just in reference to the in-your-face full spectrum sound approach, a conceptual saturation procedure is notably at play too, via euphoric dance music arpeggios and vocal snippets snatched somewhere on an advanced synthesis point of the pop punk-autotune emo-sad boy continuum. This way, a high velocity sense of conceptual concentration is obtained, with extreme stretching modes resulting in chipmunk chatterings and source material skrewed beyond all decent reason. But don't let these suggestions of multiplicity and apparent incongruence create the illusion this is just a particularly goofy and extreme collage exercise: relentless energy and coherent construction lift this up to the level of an alluring complete entity.

Album cover by galen tipton
instagram.com/genderlessgenderfulgirl
o0o0o0o0.bandcamp.com

Mastered by @wimdehaen
instagram.com/wim.genot

Released by Genot Centre
facebook.com/genotcentre

Premiere: adaa - 2sad2cry [Genot Centre]

https://bit.ly/3fsa9k0

Pre-order: https://bit.ly/3hAieFn

Genocide Cheat by Years of Denial (@yearsofdenial). Taken from Human Tragedy [MM05], out June 18, 2020 via Modular Mind (@modular-mind)

Modular Mind (@modular-mind) is a label that provides a platform to help de-marginalize artists that are expressing themselves within the boundaries of counterculture. The label always makes a statement with artists showing a side that is true to them and themselves.

The label's 9th installment; [MM05] Human Tragedy mini-LP by Years of Denial is no exception to their ethos. Here we can find some of YoD's most expressive work, a conceptualized statement from start to finish, holding the torch of what has been described as a lost doctrine (reporting the extreme parallels of the human condition). The duo's work on MM05 holds the users hand and shows them a window overlooking a peculiar world, void of perversion.

Written and Produced by Years of Denial (Jerome Tcherneyan & Barkosina Hanusova)

Artwork by Charlène Dannancier

Mastering by Modular Mind

Premiere: Years Of Denial - Genocide Cheat [Modular Mind]

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The Box Man by @yoshitaka-hikawa-1. Taken from The Breath of Air, out July 2, 2020 via @katharsislabel

Pre-order: https://bit.ly/3hNsHxb

"The Breath of Air" is the third release of katharsis, a new label focusing on emotionally charged music run by Copenhagen-based artist @jjjacob. This release is the third part of compilation trilogy featuring 30 different artists from all around the world. It follows the first compilation "The Flow of Water" released on May 21st and the second compilation "The Burn of Fire" released on June 11th.

The vibe of this compilation seems to fall between its two predecessors respectively tranquil and anxious moods. The ten artists of the record take you on a 40-minute contemplative journey of experimental and ambient music.

Mastering by RO Zar

Artwork by jjjacob

Released by katharsis

Premiere: Yoshitaka Hikawa - The Box Man [katharsis]

https://bit.ly/38ebXLr

Pre-order: https://bit.ly/3hWQo6x

Wassouf Can You Hear Me by Maltash (@maltash). Taken from  Clown For A Cold Audience [OPAL180], out July 3, 2020 via Opal Tapes (@opal-tapes)

Maltash is J. Jadam, a core member of Avril Spleen (@avrilspleen) who on this debut release fused a sick concoction of deconstructed dance music, darkwave punk and metal(s). A jet black sense of humour backs up the conceptual spine the release stands up with, one of laughing in the face of meltdown, not devoid of love but sick to death of false emotion.

Clown For A Cold Audience

Premiere: Maltash - Wassouf Can You Hear Me [Opal Tapes]

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2020 by @monokle. Taken from 2020, out July 3, 2020 via @fuselab.

2020 - the numbers seem to be tired. But here is the sound of that, from whose who are breathing their way. Our team was assembled on this collection, not for the sake of the manifesto and all this noise, but simply to “relax the face”, even with a frown on the moment. In 8 tracks there is a smooth transition, in fact, from one to another and vice versa. What's next is yet unknown, but we are firmly for the good.

Premiere: Monokle - 2020 [Fuselab]

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Taken from Drumskull new album Interlocked, out June 23, 2020 via @seagrave-3

Order link: https://bit.ly/31sqQs0

Slick jungle, low-slung broken beat and even a deep house banger, 'Interlocked' assembles 8 tracks of some of the purest old-school vibes by a veteran of the scene under a brand new alias for a frustrated and precarious (post)-lockdown summer.
 Evoking all the energy and excitement of being involved in those early years of dance culture, ‘Interlocked’ powerfully yet playfully connects then to now, reveling in a sense of timelessness, mutation and hybridity.

Photography by Amir Zaki from his book 'California Concrete: A Landscape of Skateparks' with Tony Hawk and Peter Zellner (2019)
www.amirzaki.net

Handstyle titles and tracklist by REQ TDK
www.facebook.com/REQ.TDK/

Mastered by Stefan Moerth

Released by Seagrave

Interlocked

Premiere: Drumskull - Battle Stations [Seagrave]

https://bit.ly/2YShmVd

Taken from @iptpf new album Obsession, out July 5, 2020 via @ginandplatonic.

Pre-order: https://bit.ly/2BnbaMd

ptpf is an acronym derived from the surname of Russian producer Ilya Potapov. Coming from Saint Petersburg, Potapov has been self-releasing comprehensive collections of sorely wrenched music for the past couple years. His first two projects under the ptpf moniker - '1935' and 'G.D. ' (dating back to 2015 and 2016, respectively) somewhat resemble the formula fundamental for the haunting atmosphere of an early witch house or other industrial offshots. Although the experimental nature of ptpf's works is evident throughout these releases, the transition towards more abstract realms manifests utterly on his 2019 album 'Salivation'. Coming out via the already-cult label Quantum Natives, 'Salivation' sees ptpf embracing the disorder and the tensity that was previously tamed and now has been let loose entirely. Gin&Platonic are now pleased to present ptpf's follow-up musical instalment - 'obsession'.

On 'obsession', Potapov's signature distant muttering collides with abraded power electronics, together creating a four-track EP full of dreadful emotional confession not everybody is ready to hear out loud. The disturbing nature of the project evokes a gradual dissociation from a long-forgotten tenderness into an emotional imbalance and urgent confusion. What once felt like affection, now feels like an obsession.

The leading single 'Shibari' is remixed by @rina-priduvalova, a Ukrainian interdisciplinary artist who released her first EP 'The Tears Of Things' in 2019. She is now in the process of preparing multiple audiovisual projects together with Diana Azzuz as Ximena. We also reached out to Greek rhythmic alchemists @ice_eyes, whose releases we have on heavy rotation, having received a slamming remix of 'Nobody´s Fault'. Last but not least, the endlessly creative brain behind Quantum Natives themselves - @ornine - closes the release with a sublime rework of 'Last Record'.

Artwork by Jiri Macku
jirimacku.tumblr.com

Mastered by @wimdehaen

Released by Gin&Platonic

Premiere: ptpf - Nobody's Fault (Ice_Eyes Remix)[Gin&Platonic]

https://bit.ly/3iAZ42I

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Taken from @DRIADAslullaby debut LP Obolochka, out June 26, 2020 via @routinemoscow

On June, 26 DRIADA released her debut album Obolochka / Оболочка. In it her music embraces the force of the local electronic scene and the power of endless imagination, where science fiction meets folk fairy tales. Double-language magical vocals and solid techno / synth sound by DRIADA submerge into the bizarre dystopia of contrasts.

Premiere: DRIADA - Свою Силу Дай [Routine Records]

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