discovery of the year for me. whole EP is absolute gold.

mind-blowing... best tune ever... once the synth hook has done its job, what is going on underneath from here to the end creates a totally transcendental experience. no other piece of music i have ever heard has elicited such an intensely emotional response in me. these dudes know exactly what's it's all about. i salute you.

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There is a culturally and perhaps spiritually bonded link between electronic dance music and what could be called most generally ‘the feminine divine’. In subgenres more oriented to trance and EDM, the vocal sample or progression is almost always uttered by a woman, unlike the variously-sexed divas of house; if divinity is invoked, it is less often a biblical God than some Gaia-derivative. Radiant Love’s fifth release, Goddess Within by the Montreal-based producer Maara, steps into this lineage stretching from Magna Mater to disco queen – Maara’s articulation of the feminine divine, however, is often off-hand, ringing at once sincere and deeply cheeky.
 
The double-side is summed up by the first track’s title, 'Goddess Within (Give It To Me Daddy)', which starts right off with a pumping bassline, carbonated synths, and a repeating sample speaking ‘goddess’ – what trance dreams are made of. What places these tracks especially in the realm of dream are Maara’s washes of delay, reverb and pan, drawing out melodies and textures into trails, clouds, blurs. The sonic fields are decentered, but driving and floor-ready regardless. 'Mommy’s In Trouble' follows up with a set of cleverly phased hi-hats and a swung kick drum. It’s a buildup we’re hearing, although one wouldn’t know until a sample asks us matter of factly, ‘Notice what you’re feeling. Are you calm?’ and the bass swings back in.
 
The B-side begins softer, with the wide pads of 'Plum Plum Paradise' eventually dropping into a downtempo break. The percussion is muted, and what gives the track its body is a shifting terrain of sample (‘Allow yourself inside, the time and space right now’), gurgling synth note, windchime and whisper. Goddess Within’s final track, 'Lezzies In A Jacuzzi' picks up the pace again, with a porny bass-throb, insistent hi-hats and a vocal fragment looping the word ‘amor’. This is exactly the kind of sound that would have me thinking on the dancefloor, Is she actually saying ‘amor’? Quickly I would reach the decision that it didn’t matter – the whole terrain of the actual, the explicit and undreamed is best left to masculinity anyways.

MAARA
Title: GODDESS WITHIN
Cat: RADIANTLOVE004
Format: 12”
Distributed: ONE EYE WITNESS
Mixed by: Priori
Artwork: YENNY JRANT
Text: NAT MARCUS

MAARA - GODDESS WITHIN

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Track written and recorded by Mr. Nicky Krüger
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(P) & (C) 2021 by Electronic DanceWork, Germany
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01 Maurin - Amphibolit (Original Mix)
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Amber Recordings grows, besides known acts, further with fresh faces and this includes the protagonist for this release and the catalog number 83. He delivers with his "Amphibolit EP" a perfect debut and you could not ask for a better one.

For all those who like to categorize in which genre the whole thing moves, this EP is a perfect symbiosis of "Deep-Minimal-Techno" and hip "Peaktime" Techno. It´s fresh, to the point and absolutely dancefloor filling.

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Hungary-based artists Heaven INC. and Ákos Győrfy team up for a standout double A-side release, Fall To Pieces / Arrakis, on Francesco Pico's esteemed Magnitude Recordings.

The release opens with Heaven INC.'s original Fall To Pieces, a dreamy, melodic progressive house cut that blends lush atmospheres with emotive grooves. Ákos Győrfy follows up with a deeper, more introspective remix, offering a nuanced take that dives into the subtle side of the genre. The release closes with Arrakis, a collaborative effort between the two artists. With its rolling basslines and hypnotic drive, it's a peak-time progressive weapon destined for dance floors.

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