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BC: https://dreamingvinyl.bandcamp.com/album/dreaming-vinyl-compilation-01

For the last 3 years, Dreaming Vinyl have been operating as an audio-visual-focused music discovery platform. They reimagine some of their favorite records in the form of animated vinyl stickers, alongside commissions from renowned labels such as XL Recordings, Blue Note, Rhythm Section, Anz, and EGLO Records.

This year marks the relaunch of Dreaming Vinyl, now operating as both a motion design studio and a label – DV Records. They're kicking it all off by celebrating 9 exciting electronic dance tracks for their V/A charity release. The tracks are paired with 9 visualisers, designed and animated by the Dreaming Vinyl co-founders, who have a deep interest in the visual interpretation of music. The charity compilation features talent from the likes of Elphin, LUXE, Impey, Herman, DJ ojo, Sister Zo, GoodMostlyBad, Ikävä Pii, and Tim Reaper.

The debut compilation explores a CD release raising money for MAP Charity. MAP Charity is an alternative education provider working with young people in Leeds who are unable to access the mainstream school system. Young people access empowering music and arts qualifications and opportunities to professional pathways at their home, Hope Foundry is also home to MAP Charity's in-house fundraising event Cosmic Slop - where resident and guest DJs play records through a unique custom-built soundsystem and 100% of the funds raised goes towards supporting the education programme.

Dreaming Vinyl Compilation 01

pi pi pi premiere: DJ ojo - Spherical Cows (DV Records)

Somatic Rituals co-founder Kombé embraces flux and uncertainty on his debut EP, ‘Foreign Exchange’. He tools up five tracks built for adventurous DJs, constructed from an assemblage of liquid polyrhythms - inspired by the constant movement of foreign exchange markets and the plurality of Kombe’s own cultural and sonic references that give rise to his distinct sound.

buy: https://kombe.bandcamp.com/album/foreign-exchange

‘Foreign Exchange’ balances function and narrative across its 25-minute length, with each track serving as a strong individual statement and as a part of a greater whole. The EP contrasts and finds common ground between disparate ideas and concepts, rooted in intelligent percussion, intentional sampling, and a synthesis of organic and machine-made sounds. It explores the parallels of currency exchange and cultural exchange, perpetually fluctuating financial markets and the shifting sands of the audio marketplace, the fetishisation of money and fetishisation in electronic music - whilst juxtaposing East African and European vocal samples over hypnotic, angular grooves that evoke traditional and ritual-based musical contexts. Rhythms slowly unfurl and coalesce into a storm, periodically settling into moments of reprieve while encouraging dancers to find their own relief in the syncopated patterns.

EP opener ‘Batian’ opens with skipping, filtered synth stabs over a stuttered kick that develops into a driving, serpentine rhythm underneath whirling atmospherics reminiscent of torn metal, sinew, and electricity. ‘Emerging Markets’ disorients you with a woozy, seasick groove underpinning a clicktrack beat, all welded to a disjointed kick that steps in and out of the arrangement, taunting a response from dancers. ‘Third Pillar’ functions as an elevated DJ tool with its galloping rhythm and bubbling hand drums that settle dancers into their hips, while vocals reminiscent of ASMR on a bad acid trip evoke the harmony and dissonance of man-machine collaboration. ‘Taarab Fragments’ moves into moodier territory, welding DNA from Swahili coastal genre Taarab to subaquatic Detroit electro atmospherics - holding a delicate tension until a darbuka line bursts through and rewards your patience. The textural, pensive, and beatless ‘Future Entropy Quest’ closes the EP with spiralling synth swirls and a looming bassline that suggests the questions provoked by the record have no clear resolution, leaving listeners to sit with the parallels of enduring volatility of markets and cultural values.

Kombé delivers a clear statement of intent with ‘Foreign Exchange’, offering a hybrid vision in the form of dance music for a freaky club or tripping forest rave that flows between worlds, cultures, and traditions with fluidity and grace.

Kombé - Foreign Exchange - [SORI003]

Release date : February 16th
Pre-order : gridrecords.bandcamp.com/album/contrast-ep

Grid kick off 2024 with Contrast EP, a mesmerising collection of future-facing tracks from certified one-to-watch Plebeian (@plebeiann). The NYC producer is quickly garnering deserved attention for his acutely detailed and explorative bass productions reminiscent of Objekt and Djrum.

With his EP Plebeian offers up four shimmering and lush dance organisms that exist in an ecosystem entirely of their own. Microscopic drum engineering coupled with flourishes of dubbed out percussion, moments of blissful beauty and infinitely oscillating synth swells, all distilled to create 4D soundscapes that will captivate and intrigue the listener.
credits

All tracks produced and mixed by Andrew Nerviano
Mastered by Krikor Kouchian
Artwork by Unité Services

Supported by : Akanbi, Amor Satyr, Ayesha, Azu Tiwaline, Bake, Bambi, Big Ever, Blume, Breaka, Cameo Blush, Clemency, Cleveland, Chris Farrel, Daisy Moon, Danielle, De Grandi, DJ Fart In The Club, DJ ojo, Dyslecta, Emily Jeanne, Eric Cloutier, Forest Drive West, Fred P, Giant Swan, Hassan Abou Alam, Henzo, Huerco S., Joanna OJ, Jurango, K Wata, Kouslin, Laurent Garnier, Luke Slater, Martha, object blue, Orson, Soso Tharpa, STL-P, Syz, Toupaz, Tristan Arp, Truncate, Solid Blake, Vladimir Ivkovic, Yushh and more.

GRID012

Contrast EP

Plebeian - Contrast EP [GRID012] previews

NR Sound Premiere #2 

Artist: Plebeian 
Track: Ephemerides 
Album: VA II: Common Welfare [ISB002]
Label: Isabelline
Release date: 01.24
Mastered by Kassian Troyer at Dubplates & Mastering

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Buy the digital album here: https://isabellinerecords.bandcamp.com/album/va-ii-common-welfare

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Premiere: Plebeian - Ephemerides [VA. II: Common Welfare]

Now in its tenth year, Frankfurt-based record label Die Orakel has earned itself a strong catalogue of classy releases in a distinct sonic and visual attitude, its latest being a compilation called Braindance. 

A fair assumption about Braindance as a genre could be, that it's rather in the zone of kaleidoscopic and whimsical quirktronica, less about IDM's futurist tropes. From Die Orakel's point of view, its very own Braindance compilation marks the label's tenth anniversary by releasing an intense listener's atlas, to its own and their creative collaborators' musical slant of mind.

While much could be said about spectral traces of a leftfield past, nostalgia isn't heard anywhere. The more you listen to this selection, the deeper the tracks plug into your brain—stretching from ethereal harmonic licks rippling with fragile glitches, bleepy to bass-heavy electroid steppers of any BPM range, to abstract-scientific neo-modular artistry. 

Die Orakel's Braindance transmission can be had as a 15-track digi-release, as well as a 4-track vinyl EP. Pick either for your library of the future.

01 upsammy – Wumb (Ambient Version)
02 n9oc – Hyphae
03 Pépe – Cloudbusters
04 Gacha Bakradze – Inhumanity
05 Rali Pibs – Hooked & Strungout 
06 Teatre – Daze 
07 O-Wells – Deep Concentration
08 oma totem feat. juns – Sobre Caderas 
09 Dana Kuehr – Biota
10 Benjamin Milz – Cmos
11 Poly Chain – Turbulent
12 Katatonic Silentio – Grain Of Consumption
13 Koloah – The Highway
14 Reptant – Protectors Of The Moss
15 Edward – Blurry Trees And Peanuts

Compiled by Oliver Hafenbauer
Mastering by Lopazz at Mixmastering
Lacquer cut by Daniel Krieger at SST
Cover photo by Neven Allgeier
Artwork by Orakel Studio
Words by Patrick Raddatz 
Distributed by One Eye Witness
Funded by the City of Frankfurt Department for Culture

Braindance

In the frosty embrace of Berlin's winter, French Berlin DJ and Refuge Worldwide radio host, ophélie, unfurls their debut release on hundert records. We are happy to present “Electric Blue Gecko” as the single from the record. 



Following their inaugural release on the leftfield club music label "Early Reflex," they carefully craft mesmerizing, yet meditative bass music tracks. Ophélie presents her own version of the sonic vision that they explore in their monthly radio show "Therapy Dog". Influences of drum and bass meet the minimalist razor-sharp yet spacious sounds.

   

The artwork was created by Sena Oh who developed the visual style in close collaboration with ophélie. The digital fauna is presented visually through the unmistakable artistic style of the Korean Berlin artist. Whether you're tuned in with headphones or absorbed through pulsating subs of the club, get ready for an experience that transcends the dance floor.

Pipa Pipa

Electric Blue Gecko

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Ophélie - Electric Blue Gecko

Grid Records kick off their 2024 with Contrast EP, a mesmerising collection of future-facing tracks from certified one-to-watch Plebeian. The NYC producer is quickly garnering deserved attention for his acutely detailed and explorative bass productions reminiscent of Objekt and Djrum.

Plebeian offers up four shimmering and lush dance organisms that exist in an ecosystem entirely of their own. Microscopic drum engineering coupled with flourishes of dubbed out percussion, moments of blissful beauty and infinitely oscillating synth swells, all distilled to create 4D soundscapes that will captivate and intrigue the listener - Panic is no exception to this. 

Release Date: 16th Feb 2024

https://soundcloud.com/plebeiann
https://gridrecords.bandcamp.com/album/contrast-ep

Premiere: Plebeian - Panic [GRID012]

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𝐒𝐄𝐑𝟎𝟎𝟏 - 𝐉𝐨𝐧𝐧𝐧𝐚𝐡 - 𝐍𝐞𝐱𝐭 𝐊𝐢𝐧𝐠𝐝𝐨𝐦 𝐋𝐏 (𝐎𝐔𝐓 𝐀𝐏𝐑𝐈𝐋 𝟏𝟗, 𝟐𝟎𝟐𝟒)

Order Vinyl (Limited Edition) / Download digits:
https://secondendrec.bandcamp.com/album/the-next-kingdom-lp-ser001

Embark on an ethereal journey with Second End Records’ inaugural release, as the new entity unveils today “The Next Kingdom” LP, from label-founder Jonnnah.

As a manifest of SER ethos, the Lyon-based Producer’s second personal album is also a pure merging of his own touch: mesmerizing soundscapes, pulsating rhythms, and enchanting synth melodies. From Jonnnah’s intricate layers of instrumentation and melancholic vocals, arise the fragile yet powerful aesthetic encapsulated in the contemporary electronic scene. Boundaries between genres and emotions dissolve through the prism of digital hybridizations, and each track of this twelve-act offering alternately conceal or lay bare what’s deeply rooted in Jonnnah’s soul.

“The Next Kingdom” LP, To be released on April 19 in digital and a very-limited vinyls edition.

Credits :

𝑨𝒍𝒍 𝒕𝒓𝒂𝒄𝒌𝒔 𝒘𝒓𝒊𝒕𝒕𝒆𝒏 𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝒑𝒓𝒐𝒅𝒖𝒄𝒆𝒅 𝒃𝒚 𝑱𝒐𝒏𝒏𝒏𝒂𝒉
𝑪𝒐𝒗𝒆𝒓 𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝒅𝒆𝒔𝒊𝒈𝒏 𝒃𝒚 𝑳𝒖𝒄𝒂𝒔 𝑫𝒖𝒑𝒖𝒚
𝑩𝒂𝒄𝒌 𝒄𝒐𝒗𝒆𝒓 𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝒅𝒆𝒔𝒊𝒈𝒏 𝒃𝒚 𝑻𝒊𝒑𝒉𝒂𝒊𝒏𝒆 𝑽𝒐𝒊𝒙
𝑽𝒊𝒏𝒚𝒍 𝑴𝒂𝒔𝒕𝒆𝒓𝒊𝒏𝒈 & 𝑪𝒖𝒕 𝒃𝒚 𝑫𝒊𝒔𝒄 𝑨𝒓𝒄𝒉𝒊𝒗𝒆𝒔
𝑾𝒐𝒓𝒅𝒔 𝒃𝒚 𝑳𝒐𝒊𝒔 𝑴𝒂𝒓𝒌𝒂𝒓𝒊𝒂𝒏
𝑳𝒐𝒈𝒐 𝒃𝒚 𝑻𝒊𝒑𝒉𝒂𝒊𝒏𝒆 𝑽𝒐𝒊𝒙

SER001 - Jonnnah - The Next Kingdom LP (PREVIEWS)

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NR Sound Premiere #11

Artist: Notte Infinita
Track: Yeah, Classic
Label: Twin System
Album: In The Slush (iii) [TLPITS03]
Mastering: Johnny Arthur
Release date: 22.04.24
Order the digital album here:  https://twinsystem.bandcamp.com/album/in-the-slush-iii-2

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Premiere: Notte Infinita - Yeah, Classic [In The Slush (iii)]

EtherwerkZ is back with Ascension Vol. 2, the second, left-field infused compilation of the VA series that continues the label's path to serve high vibrational vybz for the freakz.

Release Date: May 19th 2024

https://etherwerkz.bandcamp.com/album/va-ascension-vol-2
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https://soundcloud.com/ptoss
https://www.instagram.com/product_toss_/

Premiere: Product Toss - Meridian Crawl [EtherwerkZ]

Marco Rigamonti’s solo project (r)umori is back on Taste Rec. for the third time with III.

Ranging from downtempo to breaks and from leftfield house to cinematic beats, III molds a singular colorful framework, wandering through space and time and blurring the lines between dreams and reality.

Deserto holds true to this aesthetic. 

Release Date: May 15th 2024

Bandcamp: https://tasterec.bandcamp.com/album/iii

Premiere: (r)umori - Deserto [Taste Rec.]

Several years on from his debut album Nomad and after a series of sound-evolving self-releases, Off-Switch Audio are excited to announce the second full-length album from Nuboid. Spanning across a range of genres and tempos Imago LP brilliantly showcases a fully refined style from the UK based producer; a final metamorphosis of the Nuboid sound.

OGs draws for the acid bass and the drum machine, chopping hardcore vocal slices among punchy and precise electronic percussion hits, all glued together with a tasteful serving of analogue crunch.

Release Date: 24th May (OGs Single) | 31st May (Full LP)

Links:
https://offswitchaudio.bandcamp.com/album/imago-lp

https://soundcloud.com/offswitchaudio
https://soundcloud.com/nuboidmusic

Premiere: Nuboid - OGs [OSD016]

HEARec is thrilled to unveil its latest sonic adventure: HEAR0066 by the talented Japanese artist Que Sakamoto & NT.

Que Sakamoto, renowned for his innovative blend of traditional Japanese influences with modern electronic sounds, showcases his distinctive style with two original tracks on HEAR0066. Each composition is a sonic journey, weaving together intricate rhythms, mesmerizing melodies, and evocative atmospheres.

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@que-sakamoto

Premiere: Que Sakamoto + NT - 第3の目 Daisan No Me [HEAR0066]

MANT006 - Soon - oliver:
https://mantissa.bandcamp.com/album/mantissa-006-soon

Premiere Requests: mantissa_1@outlook.com

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Premiere: Plebeian - Panic [GRID012]

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