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Chicago’s Slick Master Rick is Houz’Mon of Dance Mania fame and founder of Beatboys Records. His highly coveted ‘Halloween House’ is re-released here along with 3 new ghetto acid trax made during the golden era of house (1987-1988). Slickest work on the TB-303 from the sometimes forgotten ghetto house originator.

Written and produced by Houz’Mon
Re-mastered by Redshape
Cut by Simon from The Exchange
Special thanks to Brenecki from Brooklyn
Artwork by TZU TING WANG
Layout by Gramrcy

Factory Jack Muzik (1987-1988)

Can't Wait

A1 - Slick Master Rick - Can't Wait (Factory Mixx 1987)

Tracklisting:

A1. Kabriman
A2. Tom Tom
B. Polyrhythmic Monster

Harmonious Thelonious's ethnomusicologic journeys to the African continent continues with a burning package of 3 rhythmic tracks inspired by American minimalist music and African rhythm patterns. A primordial soup of polyrhythms and dense harmonics hypnotise the body into movement, transporting the origins of dance music to neoteric audiences.

Picture artwork courtesy of Stefan Schwander.

Full printed sleeve with original photography artwork.

Kabriman

Polyrhythmic Monster

B. Harmonious Thelonious -  Polyrhythmic Monster

A2. Harmonious Thelonious - Tom Tom

A1. Harmonious Thelonious - Kabriman

Catalog no: MNSX016

Tracklisting:

A1 - Vision Electrified
A2 - everythingremains
B1 - IKNx2
B2 - Dust

Bold, inventive, daring and electrifying, 'Vision Electrified' is Xhin's most personal work to date. An alchemy of IDM, jazz, techno and live instrumentation, the artist’s latest polarizing EP breaks through the barriers, further carving his highly unique space out in the sonic universe.

Synths, programming and guitars by Xhin

All tracks written and produced by Xhin
Recorded and mixed in Singapore
Vinyl mastering by Simon Davey at The Exchange, London
Artwork by Xhin

Vision Electrified

A1. Xhin - Vision Electrified

everythingremains

A2. Xhin - Everythingremains

IKNx2

B1. Xhin - IKNx2

Dust

B2. Xhin - Dust

@sorcery_music
Track listing:

A1 Manufactured Conflicts
A2 Orbature
B1 Orbature (Samuel Kerridge remix)
B2 Artificial Landscapes Part 1
B3 Artificial Landscapes Part 2

“There are no strict rules to how I compose beats, calculate clever subdivisions or bend time signatures, the rhythmic alchemy is dictated by feeling the impact that resonates in me.”

Manufactured Conflicts is the hard-hitting precision engineered debut from one of electronic music’s most acclaimed experimental underground’s drummer. His cinematic math-laden techno is a combination of beastial, off-pulse rhythms, clever metric modulation, inspired textures and punchy transients designed to bend the listener’s mind whilst providing a high-impact full-body massage groove to the dancefloor.

Fierce and punishing, title tracks ‘Manufactured Conflicts’ and ‘Orbature’ pummel away at the consciousness where the only way out is through whole mind and body surrender. Manipulations of the mind play out in the two end-game scenarios of ‘Artificial Landscapes Part 1 and 2’, where lightness and tension interlace between man and machine.

Samuel Kerridge thoughtfully re-engineers ‘Orbature’ re-pacing the structure and contributing additional textures to the piece. His rework sculpts a haunting industrial feel to the track.

About Sorcery

Sorcery cuts a unique presence in electronic music’s experimental underground. A passion for the interaction between acoustic and electronic instruments has led to the creation of intricate, mind bending and challenging compositions. There’s an unrelenting and visceral impulse to his work, defined by a life-long and far-reaching passion for the rhythmic qualities of music. It’s a compelling, abrasive alchemy, defined by a belief in pursuing the ‘Gesamtkunstwerk’. This is ‘total’ music production: composition, collaboration, performance and recording — of which he is a proven a master in all four disciplines.

The producer behind Sorcery has lent his unique live drummer presence to the techno scene throughout various contributions and collaborations including with Kangding Ray, Belief Defect, Dadub and Powell just to name a few. This musicianship has led him to perform twice at Atonal festival and release on the Atonal imprint with SUMS (Kangding Ray + Barry Burns/Mogwai).

Credits:
 
Mastering for digital support by Daniele Antezza @Dadub Studio
Vinyl mastering and cut by Simon at The Exchange 
Artwork by Rosmarie Weinlich

Manufactured Conflicts

Pre-order

A1 - Sorcery - Manufactured Conflicts

Track listing:

A1 Manufactured Conflicts
A2 Orbature
B1 Orbature (Samuel Kerridge remix)
B2 Artificial Landscapes Part 1
B3 Artificial Landscapes Part 2

“There are no strict rules to how I compose beats, calculate clever subdivisions or bend time signatures, the rhythmic alchemy is dictated by feeling the impact that resonates in me.”

Manufactured Conflicts is the hard-hitting precision engineered debut from one of electronic music’s most acclaimed experimental underground’s drummer. His cinematic math-laden techno is a combination of beastial, off-pulse rhythms, clever metric modulation, inspired textures and punchy transients designed to bend the listener’s mind whilst providing a high-impact full-body massage groove to the dancefloor.

Fierce and punishing, title tracks ‘Manufactured Conflicts’ and ‘Orbature’ pummel away at the consciousness where the only way out is through whole mind and body surrender. Manipulations of the mind play out in the two end-game scenarios of ‘Artificial Landscapes Part 1 and 2’, where lightness and tension interlace between man and machine.

Samuel Kerridge thoughtfully re-engineers ‘Orbature’ re-pacing the structure and contributing additional textures to the piece. His rework sculpts a haunting industrial feel to the track.

About Sorcery

Sorcery cuts a unique presence in electronic music’s experimental underground. A passion for the interaction between acoustic and electronic instruments has led to the creation of intricate, mind bending and challenging compositions. There’s an unrelenting and visceral impulse to his work, defined by a life-long and far-reaching passion for the rhythmic qualities of music. It’s a compelling, abrasive alchemy, defined by a belief in pursuing the ‘Gesamtkunstwerk’. This is ‘total’ music production: composition, collaboration, performance and recording — of which he is a proven a master in all four disciplines.

The producer behind Sorcery has lent his unique live drummer presence to the techno scene throughout various contributions and collaborations including with Kangding Ray, Belief Defect, Dadub and Powell just to name a few. This musicianship has led him to perform twice at Atonal festival and release on the Atonal imprint with SUMS (Kangding Ray + Barry Burns/Mogwai).

Credits:
 
Mastering for digital support by Daniele Antezza @Dadub Studio
Vinyl mastering and cut by Simon at The Exchange 
Artwork by Rosmarie Weinlich

Artificial Landscapes part 2

B3 -  Sorcery - Artificial Landscapes Part 2

Artificial Landscapes part 1

B2 - Sorcery - Artificial Landscapes Part 1

Orbature (Samuel Kerridge remix)

B1 - Sorcery -  Orbature (Samuel Kerridge Remix)

Digital album tracklist

01 Ritual Of Dust
02 Shadow Entity
03 Superior Life Forms
04 The Windfall
05 Computer Controlled
06 Fragment
07 Latent Existence

Vinyl album tracklist

A1 Superior Life Forms
A2 Computer Controlled
A3 Latent Existence
B1 Fragment
B2 Shadow Entity
B3 The Windfall


Umwelt allies with Midnight Shift for the release of the mini LP Superior Life Forms, featuring six devastating tracks on the vinyl release and an exclusive number seven for the digital release.

Known for his take no prisoners approach to searing hardware-based broken electro with the spirit of 90s French rave parties where he participated in, Umwelt himself is founder of labels such as Fundata, New Flesh Records and Rave or Die, and a diehard scene activist, pushing the resistance for the past twenty years and more.

A dark, sci-fi bleak horror theme runs through his prolific cosmos of productions and Superior Life Forms continues the narrative. It’s a tri-invasion attack between man, machine and foreign sentient beings. From the snarling Shadow Entity creeping from the sidelines to the ominous sound of the day of reckoning depicted on title track, Superior Life Forms, Umwelt has full control of the genre – telling a story with tightly programmed sounds, deadly textural atmospherics and an uneasy, foreboding tension of a world signalling its end.


Credits:

Mastering for digital support by Daniele Antezza @Dadub Studio
Vinyl mastering and cut by Simon at The Exchange 
Pressed at Intakt
Full printed sleeve with original artwork from Aeropalmics, finished with limited edition marbled vinyl

Superior Life Forms

MNSXLP001 - Umwelt - Superior Life Forms - Mini-LP

Track listing:

A1 Signs of Disarray
A2 Invisible Intruder
B1 Nickel From The Bumper
B2 Mystified

Releases by Intergalactic Gary are few and far between. Besides a handful of collaborations such as The Parallax Corporation (with I-F) and with Pasiphae, the must-know DJ from Den Haag has largely been about his talent behind the decks. We are thus extremely honoured to have him break the mould with us for his first solo EP release in 15 years — ’Signs of Disarray’. 

Injecting a fresh spirit amidst today’s mass productions, the sounds will immediately capture vintage ears. The pacing well measured, the storytelling a precious capsule from a time past. In essence, 4-tracks impossible to replicate unless you are the one and only time-bending and time-travelling Intergalactic Gary.

Hop on board the bird trip with title track ‘Signs of Disarray’, a hurtling sonic obstacle course which gives a brief but soul-drenched reprieve. Onward, ‘Invisible Intruder’ chronicles a battle propelled by gun shots and recoils. The B side consists of the tools: ’Nickel from The Bumper’, a liminal ride for that nth hour of your set and ‘Mystified’, a ghostly apparition to surface at highly selected dance floors under the right musical conjurers.

A1, A2 and B1 mixed by our good friend Redshape, all tracks mastered and cut by the legendary Simon at The Exchange with artwork by our friendly neighbour and artist Kohei Matsunaga and layout by our crew member, Naomi Clair.

Credits:
Written and produced by Intergalactic Gary
A1, A2 and B1 mixed by Redshape
Mastering and cut by Simon at The Exchange 
Artwork by Kohei Matsunaga
Layout by Naomi Clair

Signs Of Disarray

Nickel From The Bumper

B1 - Intergalactic Gary - Nickel From The Bumper

Invisible Intruder

A2 - Intergalactic Gary - Invisible Intruder

A1 - Intergalactic Gary - Signs Of Disarray

Signs of Disarray

Mystified

B2 - Intergalactic Gary - Mystified

Artist name: Templefeld by Kirk Degiorgio
EP: Day of Reckoning

Tracklisting:
A1. Titan
A2. Day of Reckoning
B1. Vertical Life (Anthony Child remix)
B2. Vertical Life

A special undercover project debut from Templefeld (Kirk Degiorgio), with a remix by Anthony Child (Surgeon), sends a message of positivity. A curious Chimera of sounds presents itself out of the wild, from kinetic half-time drum and bass-heavy techno to shoegaze wall of sound to dreamy sunset islander vibes.

All tracks written and produced by Kirk Degiorgio
Except for track B1 remixed by Anthony Child

Artwork by Hugo Livet
Layout by Graeme "Gramrcy" Bateman
Mastered and Cut by Simon - The Exchange

Day of Reckoning

Bandcamp

MNS X 019 - Templefeld by Kirk Degiorgio - Day of Reckoning (includes Anthony Child remix)

Tracklist: 
A1. Peace Keeper
A2. Problem with Privilege
A3. Speed Dating feat. @ngly
B1. Red Sky At Night feat. @cressida
B2. Highbrow  
B3. Bon Voyage 

Full printed sleeve with illustration artwork. Limited run of 100 vinyl copies only.

Following from the success of Umwelt’s last mini-LP ‘Superior Life Forms’ on the label, Midnight Shift readies up another release, this time by @paal. Having collaborated with the aforementioned on the earlier Mothership compilation (an allied Midnight Shift x Voitax production), the German producer is now handed the reins for full creative curation over the course of six tracks with features from close pals NGLY and Cressida.

Awash with a palate of dark and broken sounds yet with touches of warmth and humor, 'Soothing Songs For A Cultured Affair', burrows deep into the mind of the Voitax label boss. Lending from a rich musical upbringing, we witness the evolution of breakbeat and electro as seen through the eyes and ears of a producer at one with his machines. Paàl’s penchant for thunderous, rumbling low ends sets the precedent for the EP with glimpses of the artist’s knack for melodies and harmonies.

All tracks written and produced by Paàl
Tracks A3 co-produced with NGLY
Tracks B1 co-produced with Cressida

Artwork by EPOD 
Layout by Graeme "Gramrcy" Bateman
Mixed by Kamikaze Space Programme
Mastered and cut by Simon from The Exchange

Soothing Songs for a Cultured Affair

MNS X 021 - Paàl - Soothing Songs for a Cultured Affair (feat. NGLY and Cressida)

Tracklisting:
A1. The Driving Rain 
A2. Wolfram 
B1. Elements 
B2. Wolfram (Dub)

Following the release of the spacious Six Rooms EP on his own newly-minted Akita Club label, rhythmic master Nico returns to Midnight Shift to fuse the mind and body.

On this latest missive, he crafts a space inhabited by wayward rhythms, urgent percussion and lead lines that feel like they’re about to cave under the pressure of The Groove. From the rain-brain dance of ‘The Driving Rain’ to the mental massage of ‘Elements’, a neat transition straddling both 104 bpm and 155 bpm, complete with directions for …something.

Four explorations of nonplaces in the fourth world. Experiments in rhythm that come close to falling apart, held together by a backbone of bass.

All tracks written, mixed and produced by Nicolas Guerrero
Artwork by Olmo U. Aguirre
Layout by Graeme "Gramrcy" Bateman
Mastered and cut by Simon from The Exchange

The Driving Rain

MNS X 022 - Nico - The Driving Rain

Enquiries: info<[at]>mnshift.net.
Not accepting demos.

Label from Singapore.