Dario Zenker - Purple

Juan Mendez aka Silent Servant is a figure in techno history that needs little introduction. As a member of the Sandwell District collective and the label's art director he collaborated on works that were responsible for a global focal shift in the genre as their label adapted and challenged the paradigm of minimal techno, taking influence from other sources such as dub, post-punk, and even classical minimalism.

But Mendez's relationship with music goes back much further than these seminal releases. With In Memoriam, Silent Servant's latest release on Tresor Records, Mendez writes a deeply personal memoir of a 30-plus year career spent exploring and absorbing the shadowy side of music; a carefully crafted elegy to people, places, and times past and the lasting effect they have on the present.

Across the four tracks, Mendez pays tribute to the earliest Detroit techno and electro, the Belgian EBM movement and the wave music that followed, the monumental dub techno sound from Berlin, and the harder, abrasive sound of the UK at the turn of the last millennium; exploring and referencing the genres that informed his later work. Each track name gives a hint to the timeframe he is revisiting and re-contextualising as the E.P. repurposes the styles that exerted an influence on him.

This E.P. represents a pure distillation of Mendez's memories whilst also cementing his place in the current and future sound of 21st century techno; aware of where we came from but focused on where we are heading.

BANDCAMP

Silent Servant - M-90

Buy / Stream: https://moc.fanlink.tv/moc040

Artist: Alexander Kowalski, Rebar
Title: When Darkness Surrenders To The Lights EP
Catalog Number: MOC040
Label: made of CONCRETE
Release Date: 06.09.2024

RELEASE INFO:
Next up on 'made of Concrete is an occult offering from label heads Rebar, backed by a filmic remix from Sardinia-born, Tresor resident Claudio PRC.

The record begins with 'Dawn's Embrace' - a chilly trip that unfurls with deeply suspensive energy. Masterfully arranged, the track courses through its chapters as minor key synths and delicate percussion expand and fork out like rivers toward an oceanic breakdown and finale.

'Radiant Resurgence' continues the journey with a modular meditation. An expansive, morphing pad generates a great depth of sound while myriad parameters are tweaked and mangled, giving the work a living, breathing quality.

'When Darkness Surrenders To The Lights' sets the tone for another murky journey. Atonal drones form dystopian waves that crash against industrial percussion as a cinematic sense of tension develops. Claudio PRC then contributes some of his trademark widescreen sonics.

Now based in Berlin, Claudio PRC is widely appreciated for his meticulous, cosmic take on Techno, and his work here beautifully expands on this trademark. A deep-set kick provides buoyancy and ballast while soaring synths spread their wings. Polyrhythms begin to overlap, giving the track a subtle primal energy that carries the record to its conclusion.

When Darkness Surrenders To The Lights

When Darkness Surrenders To The Lights (Claudio PRC Remix)

Alexander Kowalski, Rebar - When Darkness Surrenders To The Lights (Claudio PRC Remix)

Full album → https://goo.su/U5d3um
Artist: George Cross 
Title: Calibration 
Format: Digital 
Catalogue: DRSS1063
Tracklist:  
1. TheCreeper 
2. Follow me
3.  Falling Soul
4. Bending Metal
5. whoTwang
6. Boom Klang
7. Drum Planet
8. The Wheel
9. Slap ard

www.diffusereality.net 
linktr.ee/diffusereality

George Cross  - Slap Ard

Private press go strength for strength on their new outing for Sungate. An exploration in rave infused breakbeat techno with impeccable futuristic sound design.

Setting the tone with the swarming bee synths of “Overdose”, a hivemind of its own with an end-of-the-world feeling to it, to proceed into “PWM Break”, breakneck speeds and tossed drumwork, yet permanently drenched ethereal silk-like pads.

Equal parts heavyweight and light as a feather, “Raver’s Delight” does what it says on the tin, with Reese bass thick enough to drown you on the dancefloor, culminating with “Rush”, a swung break stomper guaranteed to break hearts and subwoofers.
credits
releases January 10, 2025

Mastered by Maspaventi

Artwork by Abel Fdez.

Buy here

Private Press - Hidden Agendas II [SNG053D] (Snipptets)

Midref

Our next premiere is from Netherlands artist R/D/V. On @nodebarcelona newest VA. This one is a driving hypnotic release with intensive growling layers, rhythmic drums, and pulsating kicks. Definitely a powerhouse of a track on another phenomenal release from the crew in Barcelona. 

Release Name: Spectral Divide
Label: NODE Recordings
Catalog Code: ND017
Format: VA / Digital
Mastering: Giovanni Conti at Artefacts Mastering Studio
Distribution & Promotion: Triple Vision
Release date: February 19th 2025

Purchase here:
https://nodebarcelona.bandcamp.com/

Support the artist here:
@lucaredivo
https://linktr.ee/LucaRedivo

Support the label here:
www.nodebarcelona.net
@nodebarcelona
www.instagram.com/node_barcelona/
www.facebook.com/nodebarcelona

AF Premiere: R/D/V - The Muse [NODE Recordings][OUT!!19.02.25]

Determined EP is a bass-driven retro-futurist expedition that progresses from spacecraft hangar-ready grooves, through a rhythmic dreamscape during interstellar drift, into a dub trip of planetary explorations using mecha. This EP by Dave Mech combines driving techno grooves with dub's spatial minimalism, where each track has the ability to grab the travelers and take them on an explorative trip.

Volgen (Original Mix)

POLAR ECLIPSE

1. Stef Mendesidis-Senzo
2. Vinicius Honorio-Reiki
3. Cave-Remode(The Jackson Brothers aka Marko Nastic & Kobaya Remix)
4. Ben Sims-Unity
5. Talismann-Anna Purple Mix
6. S-file-Double Crisp
7. DJ Dextro-Body Worker
8. DJ Deep-Stressin(Ben Sims Remix)
9. Hybrasil-Stellar Variation(Gene Richards Jr  HardJack Remix)
10. Hertz-Gear Shift
11. Kare Bush-Running Up That Hill(Mark Broom Dub Mix)
12. Altinbas-Hunt
13. Rustal & Offtrack-Is It Morning Yet? (Late Nite Mix)
14. Sigvard-Vague Flow
15. Havik-Locked Groove 2
16. Sleeparchive-Trust(V2)

March Promo Mix

Acronym - Jotunheim

"made of CONCRETE" is a record label run by @Rebarmusic, a Berlin- and Dresden-based DJ & producer duo.

”made of CONCRETE” is a platform for records shaped by the aesthetic of Techno, House, Ambient and Experimental music.

BOOKING:
booking@made-of-concrete.com