Name: First Light [Manual Smiles] by Manual Smiles
Duration: 5 min 45 s
Description: ‘First Light’ breaks through the darkness with shining keys, glowing acid, and hopeful energy.

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Berlin's mpeg returns to R.A.N.D. Muzik Recordings to celebrate both the label and artist's first LP - a journey through mpeg's take on tech house, crafted for the dance floor but losing nothing heard in solitude through one's headphones.

PREMIERE: mpeg - Ten Ten

For those opting for psychedelic enlightenment over psychological terror, Helsinki based artist
Jeku presents ‘Peyote Trance’; further advancements into “the trip”. A nudge towards ascendance
instead of a heavy push, the heads down motion of the music will take you there, and well, a little
bit of peyote might just help, as mother nature intended.

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PREMIERE : Jeku - A Dark Reality

Artist: mpeg
Title: aureate LP
Track Title: Marks
Label: R.A.N.D. Muzik Recordings
Cat #: RMLP01
Release date: 19.09.2025
Format: 2x12", digital

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Berlin’s mpeg returns to R.A.N.D. Muzik Recordings to celebrate both the label and artist’s firs LP - a journey through mpeg’s take on tech house, crafted for the dance floor but losing nothing heard in solitude through one’s headphones.

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Premiere | mpeg - Marks (RMLP01)

DJ Botermelk - Rubber Glover EP
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https://www.deejay.de/DJ_Botermelk_Rubber_Glover_EP_VENN001_Vinyl__1176994
Label: Venn (https://soundcloud.com/vennrecordskr)
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Seoul-based DJ Botermelk inaugurates his new label Venn with a four-track EP built for the floor. 'Rubber Glover' opens with a skewed stomp, its looping vocal fragments and bubbling FX locking into a hypnotic groove. 'Milwaukee' cools the pace into a dubby minimal stride, its soft synth swells and clipped percussion suggesting a sly after-hours mood. On the flip, 'Rearview' toughens up with a low-end rumble and menacing vocal snatches, a darker workout that contrasts neatly with what follows. Bristol's Boulderhead steps in to remix 'Rubber Glover', sharpening the drums and adding elastic drones for a buoyant, peak-time push. Across the set, Botermelk balances eccentricity with functionality - the kind of left-of-centre tools that signal both a strong label debut and a producer hitting his stride.


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PREMIERE : DJ Botermelk - Rubber Glover

Asphalt DJ & Gzardin with the strong follow-up on their Glow Mid label.

Buy: https://glowmid.bandcamp.com/album/v-a-glow-mid-vol-2

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Premiere: Asphalt DJ & Gzardin - Regrouped [Glow Mid]

‘First Light’ breaks through the darkness with shining keys, glowing acid, and hopeful energy.

First Light [Manual Smiles]

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France via Hong Kong artist Romain FX joins the Sound Of Vast roster this October with the ‘Musique De Maison’ EP, including a remix from Monkey Timers.

Romain has been a key innovator in the Hong Kong & Asian music scene for the past 18 years in various different facets, building bridges between cultures and erasing borders through music. He has since taken a step into the world of production and his music has been played by some of the biggest acts in the game such as DJ Harvey, The Black Madonna, Gerd Janson, Horse Meat Disco, Skatebärd, Lauer, Tornado Wallace, Lipelis, Orpheu The Wizard, Kamma & Masalo and many more. Here his musical production story continues with his latest collection of works coming via the esteemed Tokyo imprint, Sound Of Vast.

Leading the release is title-cut ‘Musique De Maison’, a five-minute excursion through organic percussion grooves, snaking elongated bass tones, intricately intertwined vintage-leaning synth melodies and an overall cosmic disco aesthetic that reflects Romain’s borderless, cross-cultural sound. ‘Tonal Spices’ follows and ups the energy levels with a sturdy rhythm section, squelchy acid licks, murky bass stabs, Indian vocals and cinematic strings ebbing and flowing throughout.

Monkey Timers take on ‘Musique De Maison’ next with their interpretation extracting the core essence of the original and reshaping it into a dynamically unfurling rework, fusing fragments of the original with expansive delays, heavy reverberations and modulating synth work. The ‘Psych-O-Delic (Live Mix)’ then concludes the release with off-kilter drums running in combination with, as the name would suggest, tripped-out melodies, processed spoken word and warbling synth licks — a nod to Romain’s playful, surrealist edge.

PREMIERE: Romain FX - Tonal Spices

In the shadowed hills beyond the old monastery, where vines strangled pillars and silence lay thick as dust, there existed a forgotten garden — one not marked on any map. They called it the Garden of Stone and Scale.

Nobody knew who built it. Local legend claimed it had once been a sanctuary for ancient artists, or perhaps a temple to gods whose names had been eroded by time. But everyone agreed on two things: the statues were unlike anything else in the world, and the snakes were always watching.

Mr Ho is invited in to remix Adam Curtain on a new EP launched off the back of a new record label from the Love International crew. This one focusses on the slightly darker, moodier undertones of club culture.

PREMIERE: Adam Curtain - Sculptures & Snakes (Mr Ho Remix) [Love International Floor Series]

[REMIX] Sonic CD ~ Stardust Speedway (Bad Future)

GET THE PARTY STARTED

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First Light [Manual Smiles]

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