First out of two of Ly Sander's 'Landing' album samplers released on Special place, the package presents two tracks both serviced with a dedicated remix that offer a deep yet often unheard insight into what dance music can mean. 

Preoccupation about the impact of mankind on the planet is nothing new, as the radio excerpt at the basis of 'Marching to where' clearly exposes. Nevertheless, climate change or the war in Ukraine remind us cruelly how access to food at a reasonable price is currently at stake for parts of the world's population albeit our heavy colonization of the earth. Perspectives are rather gloomy and this track exposes just that, with a historical perspective. 

Jacques Bon was kind enough to take on remixing duties. He has released music on an array of high-rated record labels including Tim Sweeney's seminal imprint, Beats In Space, Mule Musiq, Giegling, Kann, Live At Robert Johnson and Smallville Records. Not just a solo flier, Jacques also co-produced choice deep-diving joints with the likes of Christopher Rau and Chicago House pioneers, Virgo Four. 

And if it's difficult to leave aside the seriousness of the topic of this track Jacques brought some hope and sweetness to his mix as well as his dreamy atmosphere. And with the increased bpm it's even dancefloor friendly, hurra!


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PREMIERE: Ly Sander - Marching To Where (Jacques Bon Remix) [Special Place]

French producer and hardware specialist @amandraaa returns to Nous'klaer with four stoic, minimal club tracks that are so delicate and deftly produced that they beg to heard as loud as possible and as quietly as possible, allowing the listener to inspect every nook and cranny of Amandra's sonic tapestry. Opener "Lavanvilla" rides a simple drum loop that's filled out by gated, beautiful noise that gets punctuated by vibey Rhodes 7th chord and a constantly evolving 16th percussion pattern that gracefully pushes that song forward. "Palette Doree" and "Edition Collector" are Amandra's most swung offerings, lively sampled percussion and lush synths that offer endless breathing space for these beautiful numbers to exhale. "Pana Ondine" is the dance floor workhorse with a soft and punchy kick, rough stabbing bass hook, wispy ride and a mesmerizing arpeggio, the track never calls your attention loudly but instead gently lures you into its grasp.

A1| Lavanvilla
A2| Palette Dorée
B1| Pana Ondine
B2| Edition Collector

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Amandra - Edition Collector - Nous'klaer 037 (previews)

Full stream of ERIS' "Serpente," taken from Glimmers EP on Plexus 4, out June 15.

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Premiere: ERIS - Serpente

The Final Versions - Movements in an Empty Department Store (Remixes |||)

Clouds Floating in a Haze of Light (Hame Remix)

inspired by tracklist from my set at @funginetwork event

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Vinyl Only 12-2024 <3

When Radial Gaze meets Nicola Kubebe, the result is Iron Pinky Toad — a title that sounds either like a secret kung-fu move or a lost cartoon book. But don’t be fooled — this one hits hard.


The long-awaited collab brings three original tracks — Phantom Limb, Lights of Phoenix and the title cut Iron Pinky Toad — that effortlessly bridge the gap between slow-burning tribal techno and the raw pulse of new beat nested into an early techno nutshell. Imagine dancing barefoot in a ritual under a disco eclipse — you’re getting close.

To seal the record, Playground Records boss Martin Noise steps in alongside rising sensation Anastasia Zems, pushing the release into full-blown dancefloor sorcery. The groove is deep, the bass is sweaty, and the toad… well, the toad is on fire !

Dropping Friday, July 18, 2025, via THISBE Recordings — available on vinyl and digital. Spin it, stream it, or whisper its name into the smoke at 3AM — either way, the dancefloor won’t know what hit it.

Let the amphibian groove begin.

  

 

Artwork by Christoffer Budtz

Iron Pinky Toad

Iron Pinky Toad (Martin Noise Rave Version)

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• 𝗦𝗶𝗻𝗾𝗺𝗶𝗻 ─ Radiant Radar [COR-001] | 𝗖𝗮𝗿𝘃𝗲 𝗢𝘂𝘁 𝗥𝗲𝗰. •

Opening a new chapter in his artistic path, 𝗦𝗶𝗻𝗾𝗺𝗶𝗻 debuts his imprint 𝗖𝗮𝗿𝘃𝗲 𝗢𝘂𝘁 𝗥𝗲𝗰𝗼𝗿𝗱𝘀 with "𝘙𝘢𝘥𝘪𝘢𝘯𝘵 𝘙𝘢𝘥𝘢𝘳", a release that sets the tone for what’s to come.

“Radiant Radar” draws from techno’s weight and intensity but slows the tempo into a more spacious zone. Industrial edges cut through the mix, but they’re tempered by a luminous synth work that shimmer across the spectrum, keeping the rhythm warm. The textures carry an analog feeling, raw but finely balanced, giving the track both a tactile presence and a sense of mystery. The atmospherics lift the mood, turning that mystery into something inviting: hypnotic, uplifting, and ready for the dancefloor. 

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✦ Sinqmin
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Title: Radiant Radar
Artist: 𝗦𝗶𝗻𝗾𝗺𝗶𝗻 
Label: 𝗖𝗮𝗿𝘃𝗲𝗱 𝗢𝘂𝘁 𝗥𝗲𝗰𝗼𝗿𝗱𝘀 
Catno: COR-001

Format: Digital
Master: Scope 
Release Date: September 3, 2025. South Korea

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GMT (Guy Gerber, Phil Moffa, Seth Troxler), Mike Shannon, Deadbeat, Natalia Escobar Remixes.

Decompression - Mathew Jonson (GMT Remix)

This new generation that never fails to amuse me….. 

I met Dorus (Doris Nicholas) when I went to Amsterdam while touring with one of my artists in 2018. 

I was brought into the Bret for their Tribe party while Doris was playing and his stage presence, mixing technique and track selection instantly caught my attention. Such elegance, precision and track selection in someone so young would never pass my eye and ears without being noticed. On a chat after his set I find out his age, something that makes me even prouder, so much in someone so young. You see, some things they are either are or not. Not every DJ is an artist as artistry is a talent, here I discovered a true artist, one I know will have a beautiful musical journey ahead of him. 

Further along our conversation I realise how much of an impact Jeff Mills and techno has on Dorus’ influences  which then indirectly explains the mixing style I spotted and such elegance. Being a techno head from early days and having Jeff and Rob Hood as my main school led this convo to last very long, one that has not stopped (and unlikely will ever stop) so more than one year later, here we are…. 

I invited Dorus to play my Toi Toi event at Guesthouse and he delivered the result of this techno (endless) conversation. Elegant, heady, linear, hypnotic [minimal] techno, a recording we then decided to put out here for you all to listen. This is a very conceptual and well structured piece of my favourite genre, techno and likes. Among the artists I work with / represent / love I can only name the queen Dygas who touches this line with such consistency so to see such a young artist branch out to it for me, was a great discovery. 

Another impressive aspect of this is that this is not to say Dorus is a techno dj, he is equally a great dj in other genres too, so this in itself breaks the idea that a DJ only plays one genre of music but rather explores all in a beautifully structured and genuine way. 

This is the extract of his first 2 hours of his set. 

I hope you all enjoy it as much as I do, on REPEAT. 

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Happy Listening! Thank you

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Toi Toi Mix Series 23 by Doris Nicholas at Toi Toi at Club Guesthouse - 130419

Tale of Us are Carmine Conte & Matteo Milleri. Born in North America, raised in Italy, at home in Berlin. And this is their first release for Minus.

Both musical and minimal, Tale of Us strip things back to their most basic ingredients.
Circular phrases hinting at the melancholic slowly spiralling downwards.

Tracklist:
1) Another Earth 
2) Discochord 
3) Lost City

Release date:
April 8th (vinyl) 
April 10th (digital)

Another Earth

Mathew Jonson really is one of a kind.  
 
He's developed one of the most distinctive voices in electronic dance music: when you hear one of Jonson's tracks, you almost immediately know it's his. And yet there's no mistaking any given track for another. 
 
His music offers a rare fusion of populist intensities and nuanced musicality. With a keen understanding for the needs of the dancefloor and the universal laws of house and techno, he's thrown out the rule book time and time again, sneaking tricks learned from electro and even drum'n'bass into minimal clubs, and loading up his B-sides with tracks that do what they damned well please. (No kick drum? No problem.)
 
His standards for sound and presentation are exacting. Both on stage and in the studio, Jonson's fealty to analog equipment and real-time play—as opposed to mere playback—serves as a standardbearer for a kind of electronic music that goes way beyond the drag 'n' drop world of digital composition. Jonson has always been eager to get his hands dirty, and the music reflects that in gnarled bass sequences and long, intuitive lines. His sounds have serious teeth.
 
And despite his quick ascent through the ranks of the techno elite, Jonson hasn't just stayed personally grounded. He's devoted much of his energy to supporting his own close musical family, both in the groups Cobblestone Jazz and the Modern Deep Left Quartet, and with his Wagon Repair label, which he cofounded with Jesse Fisk, Graham and Adam Boothby, Frank Meyerhofer and Konrad Black.
 
He studied classical piano as a kid, plus jazz drumming, and played drums in a marching band —thus laying both the melodic and the rhythmic cornerstones of his music today. (Plenty of musicians claim to be "classically trained," of course, rendering the phrase all but meaningless. But here's something you might not have known about Mathew: he's actually begun studying piano again, which suggests a musical seriousness that's rare in the world of auto-didact button-pushers.
 
Thanks to his father's work with sound technology, he also got his hands on synthesizers at the age of 9. By the time he discovered hip-hop as a young teen, he was recreating its electro-based beats on his own rudimentary setup at home.
 
It was in Victoria, when he was 19, that Jonson met up with the crew that would help guide his musical trajectory: Tyger Dhula, Danuel Tate and Colin de la Plante, who were playing and DJing parties around the area. The four started playing in clubs together, an early version of the group that exists today as Cobblestone Jazz and the Modern Deep Left Quartet. (The Modern Deep Left Quartet was the original name for the foursome; after de la Plante moved to Montreal, the remaining trio carried on as Cobblestone Jazz.)
 
"It was all improvised," says Jonson of the group's early days. "We never really worked in the studio, we would just meet at the nightclub and jam. That's how it started. We did that for quite a while, and then it morphed into a residency at a club, once every two weeks." To keep it interesting, they would invite other musicians—on trumpet, violin, bass, sax, and rhythm sections—to join them.
 
After de la Plante left town, Cobblestone Jazz began focusing its efforts more squarely on the dancefloor, moving away from purely improvised sets to include composed and rehearsed passages. And Jonson gradually began honing in on his own sound, both in his productions and his DJ sets, inspired by a deeper, weirder sound that had begun filtering into the city's techno parties.
 
His first record, in 2001, was the first release on the B.C. label Itiswhatitis, appropritately titled "New Identity." Another followed in 2002, and in 2003. That year, he also made his first appearance on Perlon, "Alpine Rocket"—a track he recorded alongside Luciano during his first trip to Europe. And then, suddenly, Jonson was everywhere: Itiswhatitis, Sub Static, Arbutus, Kompakt, M_nus—and every track an anthem.
 
"I had all that music kind of saved up," says Jonson, "and then, just by chance, released it all at the same time. People criticized me for it, said that it wasn't a good idea. But it worked out for me. All the tracks did well. I wasn't saturating the market with bad music." He's right there.
 
In 2005, Jonson co-founded Wagon Repair, and it's been a blur since, a nonstop series of tours and recordings, solo and with his bandmates. Crucially, he moved to Berlin. Here, he and de la Plante—who moved over at the same time—have set up Cobblestone Jazz' European headquarters, providing not only the launch pad for European tours but, more importantly, the control center for the group's recorded activities. The studio is jawdropping, frankly: a semi-circle full of gear, from old workhorses like the 808 and 909 and SH-101 to unique beasts like their Cwejman and Roland System 100m modular system. Tate's Rhodes piano anchors one corner of the horseshoe, and everything feeds into a massive desk where tracks are mixed and recorded in real-time. Jonson makes his own music essentially the same way—only with two hands instead of eight.
 
Those two hands have come up with some remarkable material. Having perfected his brand of earthshaking epic with tracks like "Marionette," "Return of the Zombie Bikers" and "Symphony for the Apocalypse," Jonson has increasingly turned his efforts towards more personal, introspective music. He hasn't left the clubs behind—his new album, Agents of Time, features a number of tracks that are as hip-windingy wily as anything he's produced yet, full-on tracks like "Girls Got Rhythm" and "Thieves in Digital Land." But he's also taken advantage of the longplayer format to stretch out and indulge darker moods and slower tempos.
 
"I like to have phrases that sound like they're major, but then they go minor when they turn around," explains Jonson. "You think that you're in a happy place, but suddenly you're not. I like playing with that tension. When I look at the music I've made, the best music is always music that can stimulate any kind of emotion. It's more like a key, towards opening up whatever is inside of you -a gateway"
 
You can expect him to be unlocking even more emotions soon—ones you may not have even known you had—when he ramps up with Midnight Operator, a collaboration with his brother Nathan Jonson, aka Hrdvsion. With Nathan also based in Berlin, the two are finding common musical ground, expanding upon the platform they established with their lone, 2007 EP for Wagon Repair as they begin work on an album.
 
"Obviously, you can look at what I do with my label and the bands I have, to see what's important to me," says Jonson of keeping it in the family, so to speak. "I'm lucky because I have so many friends who are strong musicians. We can all feed off of each other.  You know, when you're doing music, it's such a personal thing. To have an outlet with the labels to be able to release our music, and be able to all stay together, I think there's a lot of strength in that. Everybody is stronger as a group." – Philip Sherburne
