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Alleycat - Arcane [BANDCAMP]

💿 Album: Valinor
Artist: Phonk’m
Label: Dirty Fur Records

Valinor is a liquid drum & bass odyssey — a journey through misty mornings, vinyl crackles, and fading autumn light. Crafted by Phonk’m, CEO of Dirty Fur Records, this album drifts between nostalgia and rebirth, mirroring the voyage of elves to their eternal realm: Valinor.

Each track unfolds like a chapter of renewal — gentle breaks, warm subs, and rain-soaked textures blending into a soundscape that feels both ancient and alive. The vinyl hiss and seasonal ambience aren’t just details — they’re the air around the music, wrapping every rhythm in the glow of memory.

Featuring ethereal adlibs and heartfelt vocals from Natalya (big love for her voice and writing), Valinor tells a story of letting go, moving forward, and finding beauty in the in-between.

A tribute to change.
A return to peace.
A new beginning. 🌫️✨

#LiquidDnB #PhonkM #DirtyFurRecords #Natalya #Valinor

Valinor

The crossing

Track 21. The crossing

makantosh (dearest) 146bpm

OCS013 Faugust - Parallel Rave Fantasies. 

All Music written and produced by James Shaw as Faugust for OCS
Mastered by Matt Colton at Metropolis
Art and design by Oscar Morgan

OCS013 Faugust - Parallel Rave Fantasies

With the ‘Lucy Reworks’ EP, label head Lucy, nom de techno of Luca Mortellaro, revisits four pivotal tracks from his label’s peerless catalogue. In their original form, these tracks from Donato Dozzy, Caterina Barbieri, Lucy & Klock and Xhin each represent significant and deeply personal moments for Mortellaro in Stroboscopic Artefacts’ history. And like the recent ‘Ten Years Of Artefacts’ album and the currently ongoing tour, this EP is a chance for Mortellaro to look back fondly at the label’s past while closely considering its present and its future.

The release of Donato Dozzy’s “Sotto Ma Sotto” in 2014 was in retrospect the moment at which Mortellaro’s curatorial vision broadened to include artists from outside of the immediate early collective of Lucy, Xhin, Dadub, et al. As an icon of Italian electronic music, Dozzy was perhaps an ideal figure to fulfill such a role. His hedonistic yet sharp-eyed “Sotto Ma Sotto” is recast by Mortellaro as a twilit techno roller, as the orginal’s fevered tempo is reduced to a sinister creep.

In remixing Caterina Barbieri, another beloved Italian artist, Mortellaro highlights the breaking of the barrier between experimental and club music that Stroboscopic Artefacts has always sought. His remix of “Virgo Rebellion”, which was released last year on the ‘Flowers From The Ashes’ compilation of contemporary Italian electronic music, retains the adventurous spirit of Barbieri’s gorgeous synth-driven original but frames it in a dramatic new dance floor context.   

The choice of “War Lullaby” is both a reflection on Mortellaro’s friendship and creative partnership with Ben Klock, and the closing of a chapter: the period in which the label’s focus moved past what had come to be perceived by the outside world as the sound of Berlin techno. The original might be considered a Stroboscopic Artefacts anthem, a track of such scale a remix could be risky. But Lucy responds to the project by matching the intensity of the original while subtly redirecting its synthetic expressions.

It would have been almost inconceivable to create a project such as this and not include Xhin. The visionary Singaporean was the first artist signed to the label, and Mortellaro doesn’t pass up the chance to journey back to 2009 and the label’s second release, the EP that gained it an international audience. You can sense the energy he draws from Xhin’s original, as he weaves a deadly synth line through the original’s laser-focussed groove.       

Over the years, it’s been vital for Mortellaro to maintain a more backgrounded presence with Stroboscopic Artefacts, allowing the music and artists to develop without his involvement appearing too closely in the frame. This EP, however, is a chance for him to boldly toast some of the label’s standout music, as Stroboscopic Artefacts marks ten years of challenging contemporary techno’s conventions.

All remixes by Luca Mortellaro AKA Lucy
A1 written & produced by Donato Dozzy
A2 written & produced by Caterina Barbieri
B1 written & produced by Luca Mortellaro AKA Lucy & Ben Klock
B2 written & produced by Xhin
Mastered @ Artefacts Mastering Studio, Berlin
Graphic concept by Ignazio Mortellaro [OA]
℗ & © Stroboscopic Artefacts 2020
Cat. No. SA10YEARSEP – All rights reserved
www.stroboscopicartefacts.com

‘X – Ten Years Of Artefacts’ tour dates:

18.01.2020 De School, Amsterdam (Lotus Eater, Lucy, Rrose)
24.01.2020 Kablys, Vilnius (Chevel, Lucy, Rrose)
25.01.2020 Case à Chocs, Neuchatel (Alessandro Adriani, Denise Rabe, Lucy)
13.02.2020 Lux, Lisbon (Lotus Eater, Lucy, Rrose)
22.02.2020 Cabaret Aléatoire, Marseille (Efdemin, Lucy, Serena Butler)
23.02.2020 Le Sucre, Lyon (Denise Rabe, Lucy, Luke Slater)
29.02.2020 Tanzhaus West, Frankfurt (Alessandro Adriani, Lucy)

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Lucy Reworks [SA10YEARSEP]

Archivist - Cinder Cone EP [SN007]

Release: 3/16/20

Cinder Cone

Archivist - Cinder Cone [SN007]

Este joven madrileño se considera clubber antes que artista, y en la medida de lo posible coleccionista y amante del vinilo.

Con gustos eclécticos, sin ningún complejo ni tabú.  Al que no le importa escuchar el idm más profundo o bailar el pop más comercial, siempre que le llame o le haga sentir. Hoy en día es el electro lo que más le llena, y lo que practica en el arte de la mezcla manual.

Sin ninguna experiencia en grandes cabinas ni público lejos de su círculo cercano. Disfruta mezclando y comprando los vinilos que a él le gusta escuchar. Sin fijarse en los demás y haciendo su propio camino.

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Tracklist:

AUX88 -  Phantom Power
Datawave - Entropia
Avidya - El Sueño De La Razón
Delta Funktionen - Siberian Surf
Carl Finlow - Expose
Versalife - 2 A Spacts 
Cybereign - Underground Radio
Helena Hauff - Slim Filter
Synth Alien - Na Brétema 
Pi-xl - Disciplinary Action (Remix) 
Silicon Scally - Asynchronous 
Assembler Code  - Oym
Negocious Man - Prophetea
Will Web - Humanity Nill
Fleck E.S.C - What r we waiting 4
ERP - Burning Question

Archaic Podcast 304 - Dani Surco

Chosen instrument: Make Noise DPO
Artist: https://soundcloud.com/skoll218
Instrument information: https://bit.ly/3dOuobJ

~ It's all already here ~

Skóll - Make Noise DPO

Monday Off mainstay Cory James returns for a meditative and shadowy EP that tenderly unfurls with the haunting and melodic "Avila," followed by the subtle psychedelic skittering of "Bubble Nebula." The core motifs of "Bubble Nebula" are then re-worked throughout the wave-like ebb and flow of "Bubble Nebula Eyes Down," and Italy's Ruhig remixes the release's title track into a pounding workout of shifting grooves and tensile atmospherics.

Mastering: Artefacts Mastering Studio
Artwork: Liza Shutova
Exclusive distribution worldwide: Ready Made Distribution

Walls Of Avila

buy at Ready Made

B2. Cory James - Avila (Ruhig Remix)- Monday Off MOFF007 (Snippet)

Lenson - Calandline (Betek Remix)

03. Forma

WE ARE NOT ACCEPTING DEMOS

Vinyl only psychedelic techno label founded by Mary Yuzovskaya. 

Exclusive distribution worldwide: Triple Vision Distribution