Artist: https://soundcloud.com/articulat010
Track: Doba Lu' Braga
Label: Afrobotic Musicology
Format: 12" Vinyl, Digital, EP
Release date: 23/4/21
Purchase: https://afrobotic.bandcamp.com/album/folclor-abstract

Inspired from Romanian cultural heritage, be it film, dance or musical instruments Articulat's new EP 'Folclor Abstract' is a glance back to the roots in search of a meaningful future.
Searching for inspiration within Romanian folklore, Rotterdam resident producer found Ivan Braga who was on his own pursuit of cultural heritage, experimenting with a variety of traditional instruments and rhythms from different regions of the country. Doba lu' Braga is Ivan's modern take on Romanian drum patterns performed on a traditional Moldavian drum (dobă) with an uplifting twist and arrangement for the dancefloor experience.

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PREMIERE | Articulat - Doba Lu' Braga [Afrobotic Musicology] 2021

For the second release on Subject To Restrictions Discs' White Series, Los Pashminas from Fribourg deliver a four-track sound experience for dance floors. The complexity of the human experience has led to many theories, which tried to explain the emotional activity of our everyday experiences. In the ’60s Paul MacLean formulated the 'Triune Brain' model. This theory proposes a very simplistic organisation of our brain, which would be too easy to accept since the very notion of 'change' is difficult to give credence to. The wiring between our primary and emotional behaviour is much more complex and subject to plasticity and transformations. What if the very essence of music could follow the same path? Maybe music could take conscience of its own environment and develop its own wave, independently from the human will.
This EP is an essay in which symbolic samples are organising themselves into the genesis of a new form of conscience, a result of a survival-mode experience that pushes the music itself to create its new form. This sound journey was created during the 2020 Pandemic.

White Series #2

PREMIERE : Los Pashminas - Lobster Symbiotic Dialogue

"They are here, all over: sudden, random molecular movements. Invisible and yet extremely effective. Perceptible only to those who turn on things from a peculiar outlook. Music, that is able to in sight humans to an Atget photography. Able to transmit flashes to the firmament, to stars that wander darkling in eternal space. And yes: to some who listen a sudden physical movement might transpire, despite the fact that all was made without a particular practical value. Art for art's sake. In favor of an alternative to reality. Compellingly haunted by itself. Like stone, that awaits a random molecular movement."

At the end of 2019, just before the world would be turned on its head by the Covid pandemic, Berlin-based label R.i.O shared their first various artists compilation Risks Issues Opportunities. Since then they've gifted us solo outings from the likes of Philipp Otterbach, Benedikt Frey and Tim Toh and Chris Imler, but now they're returning to the VA format for their first release of 2022. For the second iteration they welcome eight new artists, including Airaboi, Willie Burns, Bocksrucker and Twoonky, all of whom deliver abstract and intriguing electronic compositions that colour outside of the lines.

PREMIERE: Airaboi - Resilience Transmissions [R.i.O]

This is the second track from our new EP "Twenty One" 

Buy and support: https://tapan.bandcamp.com/album/twenty-one

Acoustic, no-age krautrock from Berlin releasing on Glasgow label, Phase Group. 

The next release on Phase Group unearths a truly unique project that has existed as an outlier in the Berlin underground since 2002. 

A stage decked out with xylophones, tambourines, timpani, wooden percussion, two drum kits, a cello, harmonicas, saxophones and pieces of scrap metal. Eight unassuming musicians playing repetitive, trance-inducing phrases, at times serene, fragile and dream-like and at others wild, primitive and driving. This isn’t a scene you might associate with hazy nights out in Berlin but it’s what you’d find if you ended up at a Kulku show.

Kulku's music is a hard to define blend of percussive minimalism, folk, krautrock, post-punk and no wave, almost exclusively derived from acoustic sound sources. Their debut album ‘Fahren' presents this unique sound-identity that they have been crafting for the best part of two decades. 

The A-side presents 3 tracks of percussive propulsion, minimalist xylophone motifs and repetitive drums alongside monotone organ, dramatic narration and woodwind instruments moving in and out of dissonant howls and melodic improvisation. The B-side is devoted to lighter tones, beginning with the glockenspiel minimalism of ‘Unterm Himmel’ and rounding the record out with trance inducing drone of the album’s title track which builds up into a cacophony of snare drums, dissonant accordion and melodica before fading out like dream.

All songs composed and recorded in Berlin by Wenzlovar, Gatis Silde, Johannes Schmelzer-Ziringer, Johanna Riska, Cornelius Onitsch, Alexander Samuels and Maxfield Gassmann

Artwork by Andrija Čugurović

‘Fahren’ is released in August 2022 on Phase Group Records. Distribution via Rubadub.

Fahren

Kulku - Fahren (Preview)

Preorder now on Juno: https://bit.ly/3faJqOx

Vienna's Florian Stoffelbauer is the man behind the Heap alias. He uses it sporadically to drop cultured deep techno on labels like Mechatronica and Neubau and has done for around six years now. This new long player is the first we have heard from him in almost three years but it has been worth the wait. False Hope on Canadian label Isla is slow and snaking techno with icy atmospheres and a sleek sense of futurism. It's stylish in design and heady in mood with standouts like 'Inner Peace' drawing you into a world of intrigue and mystery. The title track brings lush cosmic melodies over gentle kick patterns and somehow soothes the mind, body and soul. Nice work indeed.

More from the label: https://bit.ly/3zkxY9M

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PREMIERE: Heap - Trist [Isla]

Eiger Drums Propaganda strikes back on Macadam Mambo with a second opus!
After a well remarked start last year, half-Pilotwings, Louis Ebola’s project, returns with a more dancefloor tribal oriented album than the previous one which was a bit more experimental, incorporating again flutes, weird voices and dreamy elements on down beats tempos, revivaling the early New Age/Trance era to modernise it with genius…



TRACKLIST : 
A1. LA QUÊTE 1:36 
A2. THE SUN 4:30
A3. THROAT COMPLAIN 4:25 
A4. THUNDERSTRIKE 3:01
A5. ASTRAL LIGHTS 5:25
B1. INSIDE THE ISCHEMIC SYNAPSE 4:37 
B2. DISCO SOUND TO DEATH 4:09
B3. EXOTIC ABDUCTION 2:57
B4. THE MOON 5:23
B5. EIGER HAS TO DIE 2:14

MMLP4004 - "Eiger Drums Propaganda II" [PREVIEWS] OUT!

Vinyl and digital release. 
https://kump.bandcamp.com/album/kump5-warzou-eurostox-ep

A1 -  Warzou - Eurostox
A2 - Warzou - Nomor
A3 - Warzou - Periods
B1 -  Warzou - Maybe/Sure
B2 - Warzou - Maybe/Sure (Gil.Barte remix)

Artwork by Warzou.
Distributed by Chez Emile records.
Mastered by Paul's Boutique.

KUMP5 - WARZOU - EUROSTOX EP

buy : https://global-warming-records.bandcamp.com/album/future-was-like-gw08

Paris-based imprint @globalwarmingrec starts the decade looking at the future, with a bass-infused Various that compiles four avant-garde club bullets from artists and friends close to the label.
The release is opened by @malcolmaudio , curator of the EP and label honcho, who gives the mood with a slomo post-rave break, where ethereal vocal samples, acid pinches and a loud reese bass are smashed by a hostile kick storm.
Then, the one-man band performer and unpredictable producer Ouai Stéphane delivers an epileptic reinterpretation of his drum and bass roots. His signature bleeping sounds and self-made vocals elements are here chopped over by a frantic pump bass and complex drum patterns. A landmark for the guy.
After what, the dark child Slowglide, previously heard on Antinote or Comic Sans Records makes here his Global Warming debut, delivering the perfect anthem for Gotham City nightclubs, merging industrial mood and codeine effect into one.
Finally, closing the whole thing, Parisian badman Jon Beige delivers a mental half-time gabber creature, where a bone-crusher rythmic section blends with thrilling industrial jams, sci-fi atmospheres and a haunting vocal, at the speed of light.

Future Was Like

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PREMIERE : Malcolm - Bust Out

https://soundcloud.com/milosnaider is back with his cosmic vibes and ready to surprise you in 10th Hypnotic Connection release ! This is five track release with amazing slow mo rhythms , weird atmosphere and his special hypnotic grooves. Enjoy it and welcome to a space trip.

Hypnotic Connection 010

Hypnotic Connection

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(HC010) - Milo Snaider (Preview Clips) Release date April 24th

15th ИДА release is coming from Saint-Petersburg based Anastasia Zems. She delivers EP full of mystery, weird grooves, tribal elements, field recorded samples paired with her psychedelic vocals and ad-libs.

On the remixes we welcome our friend, Karakter records’ own Pedro Martins, who transforms ‘African Fairytale’ into lush laidback breakbeat voyage, while on another one we see comeback of Aristidez who pushes the energy up on ‘359011_01’ and raises the trippy feel of the track.

https://soundcloud.com/anastasiazems
https://soundcloud.com/idasound

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PREMIERE⚡️Anastasia Zems - African Fairytale [ИДА]

distribution Rubadub
in store atm :
- The Jaffa Kid "A Teq Approach by" 2xLP (May 2025) NEW!!
- Pieter Kock "The End II" 2xLP (Jan. 2025) NEW!!

coming soon :
- Dr. Strange LP (Sept. 2025)
- Hun Hun LP (Nov. 2025)